Heather Fowler

About Me

Heather Fowler received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in May of 1997. She has taught composition, literature, and writing-related courses at UCSD, California State University at Stanislaus, and Modesto Junior College.

She has published and forthcoming short stories in the following journals and anthologies: Feminist Studies (forthcoming, print); BlazeVOX (Fall 2009); Emprise Review (November 2009); Surreal South 2009 (Fall 2009); DOGZPLOT (Fall 2009); JMWW (Summer 2009); PANK (June 2009); Night Train (Spring 2009, 9.1); The Abacot Journal: an online magazine of weird fiction (Spring 2009); filling Station (forthcoming, print, CAN); Etchings (forthcoming, print, AUS); Underground Voices (November 2008); A Cappella Zoo (October 2008, print, Volume I). KeyHole (August 2008); Trespass (August/September 2008, print, UK); SubLit (August 2008); Coming Together: With Pride (Phaze, 2008, e-book and print); Word Riot (May 2008); Storyglossia #28 (May 2008); Cityworks 2008 (May 2008); DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION (2008, online and print); Temenos (Fall 2007); Mississippi Review online (October 2007); See You Next Tuesday (2006); Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry (Winter 2006); the muse apprentice guild (October 2002); artisan, a journal of craft (September 2002, print); Literary PotPourri (May 2002); Exquisite Corpse (Summer 2001); The Barcelona Review (May, 2001); Quercus Review (May, 2001, print); Penumbra (May 2001, print); B & A New Fiction (Jan. 2001, print, CAN); Barbaric Yawp (Dec. 2000, print); and Zoetrope All-Story Extra (June 2001, October and December 1999). She worked as a Guest Editor for Zoetrope All-Story Extra in March and April of 2000. Her story "Slut" won third prize at the 2000 California Writer's Conference in Monterey.

Her poetry has recently appeared at poeticdiversity (December 2009); INTHEFRAY (February 2008), and Empowerment4Women.com (November 2007), and been selected for a joint first place in the 2007 Faringdon Online Poetry Competition (October 2007) , as well as published in various venues including: the Map of Austin Poetry, The Coast Highway Review, the Driftwood Highway 1999 Anthology, Joe's Journal, Best of the Beach 1998, The Publication, and the Cityworks Literary Anthology, Volume 6.

Why do you write?

I write like my hand is on fire, like my life may end at any moment, like there is nothing better I might be doing--because I love it just that much.

What fuels my creativity is reading the creative work of others that spreads my awe and delight at their inventions like wildfire across my brain.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Calvino, Borges, Moody, Woolf, St. Vincent Millay, Tennyson, Moore, Munro, Boyle, Shephard, Williams (T), James, Orwell, etc.