April Tierney is a poet, craftswoman, mother, and lover of stories. Her work follows threads of ecopoetics, myth, culture, and lineage. She has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and featured in Orion Magazine, Deep Times: A Journal of the Work that Reconnects, Clarion Poetry Magazine, Real Ground Journal and elsewhere. She guides in-person and online writing circles as well as seasonal art making workshops.

April is the author of four full length collections of poetry, Matter/Mother (Wayfarer Books, 2024), Memory Keeper (Wayfarer Books, 2022), Origin Stories (Fire Feeders Press, 2020), and Singing to the Bones (Fire Feeders Press, 2018). She is also a contributor in several anthologies, including Dawn Songs: A Birdwatcher's Field Guide to the Poetics of Migration edited by Jamie K Reaser and J Drew Lanham (Talking Waters Press, 2023).

April is a collaborative artist at heart. She has read poetry alongside musicians, vocalists, painters, dancers, birth and death doulas, midwives, and storytellers. She was a featured poet in the Fury of the Saints: Poetry and Trouble talks with Stephen Jenkinson and Gary Dillion in Victoria, British Columbia and also in Jaipur Literary Festival’s Poetic Imagination panel in Boulder, Colorado.