Heather June Gibbons was born in Utah and grew up on an island in Washington State. She earned an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2007, where she held a Callen Graduate Scholarship. She has been the recipient of a Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, a Pavel Strut Poetry Fellowship from the Prague Summer Program, a Agha Shahid Ali Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center, and a university prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her chapbook, Flyover, was published by Q Ave Press in 2012. Her full-length collection has been a Finalist for the Four Way Books Intro Prize, and a Semifinalist for the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books. Her poems have appeared widely in journals such as Gulf Coast, The Southeast Review, The Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, Blackbird, New Ohio Review, and Drunken Boat. She lives in West Lafayette, Indiana and teaches creative writing and literature at Purdue University. |
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