Adair W. Heitmann, BFA is a first place winner in the 2022 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest and she is an award-winning artist and commercially published author. Adair is a storyteller, speaker, educator, and photographer. She creates personal experience essays with inspiring and universal messages. She examines the beauty of nature as well as identity, self-acceptance, home, renewal, relationships, and transformation. She is a Poet-in-Residence Teaching Artist in schools.
Adair previously held careers in design, marketing, and communications for creative, corporate, entrepreneurial, educational, health, municipal, and literary environments. She is a CT Art Grant recipient.