Longform Fiction — Ploughshares, October 2025

A darkly comic exploration of loss and self-reinvention — where one woman’s attempt to clean up her life turns literal, when she buys a trick to pick up junk.
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An Interview with Ha Jin

Electric Lit, October 30 2025

Heather sits down with award-winning author Ha Jin to discuss courage and memory under an authoritarian regime.
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Short Story — Fiction On The Web, August 2025

A tender, unflinching story about the friendship between  theater-loving libertine Gretchen and a troubled fabulist Phil. 
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Short Story — North Dakota Quarterly, forthcoming in 2026

High school consent camp with your ex-situation and the rest of his lacrosse team? Aubrey can handle it.
→ Coming Soon