When Heidi Durrow was eleven, she moved with her parents to Portland, Oregon, and for the first time in her life was asked, “What are you?” What people meant was: “Are you black or are you white?” ...

Trinity College Dublin has announced that one of Ireland's most important and ancient manuscripts, the Book of Durrow, is to go on loan to the British Library for a landmark international exhibition ...

Heidi Durrow, the author behind The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, recently visited the KQED studios to record an episode of The Writers’ Block, which will be released next week (listen to Heidi’s ...

There’s a reason many great social justice novels are written as historical fiction or contain elements of fantasy or allegory: This builds a certain crucial distance into their storytelling. Heidi W.

Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author Heidi Durrow has often felt like she's had to straddle two worlds. She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish mother. Her own ...

Before the Book of Kells, there was the Book of Durrow. This smaller, lesser-known manuscript is an exquisite piece of craftsmanship in its own right and is destined for the British Library as part of ...

The public is invited to hear the author of "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky" speak at Bishop Dunne Catholic School as part of their annual Literary Festival. Heidi Durrow is the author of the young ...

The Durrow Scarecrow Festival is now in its thirteenth year and this is the last time it will run as a nine-day event. The highlight of the festival is the All-Ireland Scarecrow Championships in which ...