Heather Tone is the author of a collection of poetry, Likenesses (Copper Canyon Press), as well as a poetry chapbook, Gestures (The Catenary Press). Her second collection of poetry, Stadium, is forthcoming from Burnside Review Press. Her writing has appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Denver Quarterly, and other journals.

 

As a poet, Heather is the recipient of the American Poetry Review’s Honickman First Book Prize (selected by Nick Flynn), the Burnside Review Press Book Award (selected by Rick Barot), and the Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Prize (selected by Tomaž Šalamun); she has served as a Peter Taylor Fellow for The Kenyon Review’s Residential Adult Writers Workshop and has been awarded Visiting Writer/Artist-in-Residence positions at Wheaton College, Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, and the St. Louis Poetry Center’s Observable Reading Series.

 

Heather is also the recipient of a Jack Hazard Fellowship from New Literary Project for her work in fiction. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she lives and teaches in Austin, Texas.