Heather Thomas

Heather Thomas is an award-winning poet and a professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of seven books of poetry, including Blue Ruby (FootHills Publishing, 2008). Resurrection Papers (Chax Press, 2003) was translated into a bilingual edition and published in Argentina. The Fray, an art and poetry collaboration, was created with artist Barbara Schulman. Her poems appear in anthologies including Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and in more than 30 print and online journals including American Letters and Commentary, Chain, 13th Moon, and mid)rib. Associate poetry editor for the online magazine 5Trope, Heather also has published literary criticism as well as journalism, fiction, and nonfiction essays. Her play, Blue Firefly, was produced by the Reading Theater Project. She has awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She earned a master’s degree and doctorate from Temple University and has given readings in Ireland, Russia, and Argentina, as well as throughout the U.S.