Heather is originally from Louisiana but grew up between Houston and New Orleans. She spent some time in Austin, Texas getting her weirdness in check before heading off to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is there that she fell in love with the East Coast and all its beautiful vibes.

She started writing poetry at age six thanks to her favorite first-grade teacher. What started as a fun class project sparked a passion inside her tiny heart. She would later cobble together her first ‘novel’ in the summer between 7th and 8th grade on a typewriter her grandmother gave her. Eventually, she would go on to write a novella and a play and even tried her hand at screenwriting. She has always been drawn to the arts and has lived a few creative lives thus far. Heather is an award-winning actress, was the front woman in a cover band, was a ballet dancer for over twenty years, and even became an interior designer. No matter where she is in her artistic endeavors, writing is and has always been her first love.

Heather currently lives in upstate New York with her partner, Victor, and their bossy cats Marty and Ripley. She is a copywriter/designer by day, but outside the 9-5 grind you can find her cooking or reading in her hammock. She loves gaming, playing guitar, gardening, and finding new sub-genres of music on Spotify. She holds a BFA in Interior Design with a minor in Creative Writing, as well as a BFA in Theater with a concentration in Dance.

Favorite Books:

Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, Dorothy Parker: The Complete Stories, Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat, But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria by Julia Reed, The Collection of Poems by Langston Hughes, I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron, W. H. Auden selected Poems, On Writing by Stephen King, Where the sidewalk ends by Shel Silverstein, Raymond Carver’s Where I’m writing from: Selected Stories

Favorite Films:

Manhunter, Clue, Dr. Strangelove, A Hard Day’s Night, Get Out, Parasite, Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, So I married an Axe Murderer, Silence of the Lambs, D.O.A. (1949)