| Intro | American writer |
| Is | Poet |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1 January 1971 |
| Age: | 49 years |
Heidi Lynn Staples (1971) is a U.S. experimental writer. Her debut collection, Guess Can Gallop (New Issues, 2004) won the New Issues Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Dog Girl (Ahsahta, 2007) and Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake, A Memoir, which includes her illustrations (Caketrain, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in the Best American Poetry, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Along with the poet Amy King, she co-founded Poets for Living Waters, an international response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Piedmont College in Athens, Georgia. In the fall of 2014, she will join the faculty of the University of Alabama.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Interview,Here Comes Everybody.
Flis, Brad. Octopus, Review of Guess Can Gallop ..
Lundin, Dee Ann. Tarpaulin Sky Summer 2005. Review of Guess Can Gallop .
Verse Daily. 2007.