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 writing has appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Fence, and other journals.

 

As a poet, Heather is the recipient of the American Poetry Review’s Honickman First Book Prize and The Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Prize; she has served as a Peter Taylor Fellow for the 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.

 

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