I am a compassionate writer-educator with a love for teaching and writing. Presently, I teach for the English & Writing Departments, School of Professional Studies, and the Liberal Arts for Returning Citizens (LARC) program at Clark University and I also have the honor of teaching seventh grade English Language Arts where I get to work with amazing young writers who inspire and surprise me each day. I completed my MFA in Creative Nonfiction at New England College in July 2023. I am a life-long learner, writer, and dedicated teacher with 20-plus years of experience.
My 20-plus years of teaching experience includes K-12 public and higher education. My first career began as a librarian and library teacher in K-6 and later 7-12 teaching information curation, style and citation workshops, research skills and strategies and more. As I continued teaching, I began adding high school teaching experience to my repertoire. I have taught 8th grade Language Arts, and high school English courses including MCAS preparatory, Dystopian Literature and Film and Creative Writing.
My scholarly interests include the History of the Essay, Creative Nonfiction, and Human-Animal Relationships in Memoir and Autobiography. I also have a slight obsession with true crime. My work has appeared in asap/J, The Carolina Quarterly, Soundings East, Bennington Review, Doctor T.J. Eckleberg Review, 580 Split, and other fine places. My hybrid chapbook, The Blue House on Cone Hill Road & Other (Dog) Habitations was released from Bottlecap Press in 2024. Francesca Borrione (UVA, Media Studies) and I have an edited collection of academic essays, Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins: Voicing the Less Dead (2024) out from Lexington Books. Besides writing, teaching, and studying, I enjoy traveling, and spending time with friends and family, especially my son.
Heather J. Macpherson 