Audrey Heffers
PhD Student
English
- About
- Education
- Research
Current Courses
247.001Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry
125.008Literary Narrative
Teaching Interests & Areas
Creative Writing (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, genre fiction, hybrid, mixed-media); Queer Literature
Research Interests & Areas
Creative Writing (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, genre fiction, hybrid, mixed-media); Creative Writing Studies; Queer Studies; Disability Studies; Inclusive Pedagogy & Praxis; Embodied Pedagogy; Public Humanities & Community-Engaged Scholarship
MA English
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
MFA Creative Writing
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR
BA Creative Writing
Susquehanna University
Selinsgrove, PA
Book, Authored
Heffers, A. What Blooms in the Dark. ELJ Editions (2024)
Heffers, A. In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be. kith books (2023)
Heffers, A. Parts of Speech: A Disabled Dictionary. Alien Buddha Press (2023)
Heffers, A. The Gaia Hypothesis. Alien Buddha Press (2023)
Heffers, A. Queen of Pentacles. Choose the Sword Press (2016)
Book, Edited
Heffers, A. Musing the Margins: Essays on Craft. Human/Kind Press (2020)
Presentations
“Dualities of Safety & Terror in Queer Fiction”. NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference: Home/Bodies. University of Tennessee. (2024)
“Hybridity & Experimentation in the Margins of Creative Writing”. Bridges and Borders Conference. Carnegie Mellon University. (2024)
“Imaginary Margins: Disability Poetics & Reinventing the Page”. Rethinking Crisis & Status Quo Symposium. Purdue University. (2024)
“Queer Paths Toward Home: Kinship in Speculative Fiction”. Mythopoeic Society’s Online Midwinter Seminar. (2024)
“Reading for Pleasure: Revolutionary Potential in Queer Graphic Novels”. Goblin Modes: Pleasure, Care, and Disobedience. Indiana University. (2024)
“Unbecoming Expectations: On Innovative Descriptions”. Intersectional Studies Conference. South Carolina State University. (2024)
“Bi Becoming: (Re)Defining the Self”. Encounters Conference. University of Glasgow. (2023)
“Crip Queer Storytelling: An Intersectional Analysis”. Creative Writing Studies Conference. Creative Writing Studies Organization. (2023)
“Laboring Toward Liberation: Literature as a Tool of Resistance”. Bridges and Borders Conference. Carnegie Mellon University. (2023)
“Cultivating Sustainable Creative Writing Practice”. Creative Writing Studies Conference. (2022)