I was wheeled into that ICU your beloved wife and walked out a liability…
Heather Romero-Kornblum captures the crumbling of her marriage following several near-death experiences in I’M NOT OVER YOU – the 2025 Four Feathers Press Chapbook Contest winner.
There are some experiences for which there is no map.
We will use poetry in your guided writing session to put words to experiences you may have been struggling to acknowledge or process.
You do not need to have any prior writing experience.
“A compulsion to be heard,
I crafted around the eggshells
framed and metaphored
to present a palatable dish…”
Guided Writing Journeys
Some experiences can only be processed in a poem.
Whereas other mediums require linear processing, poetry allows for the processing of experiences in pieces.
“Write through the insanity, I told myself
there is nothing else left
My words have kept me alive all of
these years…”
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I’M NOT OVER YOU is the 2025 Four Feathers Press Chapbook Contest winner. Intimate and heartrending, I capture the crumbling of my marriage in the wake of several near-death experiences due to Long COVID.
About me
A former academic researcher, Heather Romero-Kornblum holds a B.A. in Psychology from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Management from UCSD.
Heather was in the middle of her Ph.D. when Long Covid upended her life. She returned to poetry after several near-death experiences due to Long Covid.
Poetry became the vehicle for the unimaginable. She captures the crumbling of her body, her marriage, and her family in the wake of her near-death experiences in I’M NOT OVER YOU – the 2025 Four Feathers Press Chapbook Contest winner.
She is published in multiple journals and anthologies, including with Women Who Submit in ‘This Makes up the Sky’ and ‘Accolades,’ Feather Press ‘Tender Hearts Club,’ LA Art News Poet's Place, Quiet Lightning’s ‘Sparkle and Blink,' Four Feathers Press monthly anthologies, The Zest of the Lemon, Plague 2020: A world Anthology of Poetry and Art About Covid-19, the upcoming Altadena Poetry Review: Anthology 2026, and on the ZZyZx WriterZ podcast, and has featured at multiple venues, including at the WordParty Poetry and Jazz monthly series, Sacred Grounds – the longest running open mic in San Francisco, Mutiny Radio, Poems under the Dome, Four Feathers Press, Cobalt Poets, and Lyrical Flames. Her poem ‘Alienation’ won a 2025 Print Poetry Award from Four Feathers Press. She also hosts the weekly Poetic Problems critique and brainstorming workshop.
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