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Virtual Author Talk with Miranda Cowley Heller

Lush Lyricism and Intimate Confessions

2026-04-22 11:00:00 2026-04-22 12:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Virtual Author Talk with Miranda Cowley Heller Virtual Author Talk with New York Times Bestselling Author of The Paper Palace and Reese?s Book Club Pick, Miranda Cowley Heller. Virtual Branch -

Wednesday, April 22
11:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2026-04-22 11:00:00 2026-04-22 12:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Virtual Author Talk with Miranda Cowley Heller Virtual Author Talk with New York Times Bestselling Author of The Paper Palace and Reese?s Book Club Pick, Miranda Cowley Heller. Virtual Branch -

Virtual Author Talk with New York Times Bestselling Author of The Paper Palace and Reese?s Book Club Pick, Miranda Cowley Heller.

Award-winning and bestselling author Miranda Cowley Heller takes us on an intimate journey through the life stages of a woman in her new poetry collection, What the Deep Water Knows. Delicate, yet exceedingly raw, these poems will transport you as vividly as any work of fiction. 

If I could fly backward, I would.

To the safety of branches, to the time

when my heart still raced for you,

twelve hundred beats a minute.

In poetry that is at once bold and lyrical, affecting and devastatingly frank, Miranda Cowley Heller takes us through childhood, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. Suffused with the natural world and the landscape of Cape Cod, where many of the poems are set, What the Deep Water Knows contemplates love in all the seasons.

Register now to celebrate National Poetry Month with this graceful new poetry collection. 

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About the Author: Miranda Cowley Heller was raised in New York City and Cape Cod. Her debut novel The Paper Palace was a number one New York Times bestseller in the US, a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She has worked as a senior vice president and head of drama series at HBO, developing and overseeing such shows as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, and Big Love, among others. This is her first poetry collection.

For upcoming author talks, visit https://libraryc.org/santacruzpl/upcoming.

SCPL's Virtual Author Talks are made possible by the Friends of the Capitola Library.

AGE GROUP: | Adults 18+ years |

EVENT TYPE: | Poetry | Author Talks |

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