Heather, she/her, lives in San Diego where she writes, teaches and does visual art.  Her chapbooks include Just Let Me Have This (Selcouth Station Press) and Same Bitch, Different Era: The Real Housewives Poems (above/ground press).  She is also the author of the forthcoming collections, Dear Marshall, Language is Our Only Wilderness (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and Call Me California (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Harbor Review, Terrible Orange, The Velvet Giant, Pidgeonholes, Occulum, and more. You can find her at heathercsweeney.com.