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Constance Mears is a writer and painter, drawn to metaphors of nature and nests. 

She has been painting images of birds’ nests since the mid-90s with shows in Santa Fe, Dallas, Seattle, Anacortes, and Lopez Island.

She began writing poetry at 11, by watching her mother, who had watched hers. Her work has appeared in various anthologies, Surrounded: Living With Islands, Ars Poetica, and the Raven Chronicles. Two poems were honored by the Washington Poets Association in the William Stafford category. She has written two books, Dream Hatching on bird wisdom, and a memoir,  The Bumbling Mystic’s Obituary. She has worked as a reporter and freelance writer. Her column, Nesting Instincts, won first place from the Society of Professional Journalists.

She writes and paints and makes her home in the Pacific Northwest.