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Heather Myers

Heather Myers

Visiting Lecturer

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal ArtsEnglish

Heather Myers holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of North Texas, an MFA in Poetry and a Gender and Sexuality Teaching Certificate from West Virginia University. She was the 2024-2025 UNT Writers in the Schools instructor, teaching poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic narrative, among other genres, to Calhoun Middle School 7th graders in Denton, TX. She was a UNT Special Collections 2024 Research Fellowship Awardee, working on a lyric essay project titled Portraiture and Paper Dolls alongside a poetry dissertation titled Twin Absence. A 2018 Association of Writers and Poets Intros Award Winner, her work can be found forthcoming or in previous issues of Cimarron Review, the PSU Press anthology, Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, Pinch, and elsewhere. 

Education

Ph.D. English, concentration in Creative Writing (Primary: Poetry, Secondary: Creative Nonfiction). University of North Texas.
M.F.A. Creative Writing (Poetry). Teaching Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. West Virginia University.
B.A. English.  Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus. 
 
  • “First Kiss” and “My Mother in Her Prom Pictures With Her First Husband.”Cimarron Review. Forthcoming.
  • “Up Meyer’s Lane, Altoona PA.” Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State University Press. Forthcoming May 2025.             
  • “In My Own Fashion.” Pinch. Fall Issue 44.2. 2024. Print.
  • "Girls” (Best of Net Nominee) & “Taking Inventory After Loss.” Door is a Jar. Issue 29. Winter 2023. "Girls" Online.
  • “Origin Story”. The Journal. Winter Issue 43.3 2021. Print.
  • “Beyond Understanding,” Puerto Del Sol. September 2018. AWP Intros Winner. Online.
  • “Deciding When Enough is Enough,” and “Lottery.” Palette Poetry. August 2018. Online.
  • “Mythmaking as Self-Making: An Interview with Aza Pace, Author of Her Terrible Splendor.” American Literary Review. Spring 2025. Online. 
  • Review of Boats Burned by Kelly Grace Thomas. American Literary Review. 2022. Online.
  • Research Fellowship Awardee, UNT Special Collections (2024).
  • Journal Intros Award in Poetry. Association of Writers and Poets. (2018).

Last Updated: November 03, 2025

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