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This is the website for author Heather M. Fowler, literary author of short fiction, poetry, novels, and plays. 

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Book Description:

In an explosion of love’s metaphors, Fowler’s debut collection of stories, SUSPENDED HEART, takes on American fabulism with a cast of unexpected heroines in the narratives of life and loss—women whose hearts fall out at public malls, women whose fxpro spread betting bodies bloom with changing seasons, women who sprout blades or have multiple eyes, sleep as snakes, or birth saints like lapis lazuli babies. Where there is struggle and sadness, there is also humor: Fowler’s fictive voice has been compared to both Franz Kafka and Donald Barthelme. There’s a fearlessness to this prose, a melody of life and magic and loss. Selected stories in this volume have been published online and in Australia. Partial author’s proceeds to be donated to the San Diego Family Justice Center.

 See Suspended Heart Praise page for reviews and reader remarks.

NEWS:

June 2012

People With Holes now has a Facebook page and is open for pre-order.  Drop in and pick up a copy.  If you'll be at Readercon in July, stop by Pink Narcissus Press's table, say hello, and get one there. :)  PWH's first review just released at ForeWord Reviews with high praise, excerpt below: 

Readers who admire any of the finest writers in the genre (Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Toni Morrison, and Salman Rushdie) should enjoy the flights of fancy within this book, and also be able to confront its darker journeys.

May 2012

"People with Holes" story released online--have a read.  Also, check in on a new essay "The Beautiful and Daunting Gift of Being Read" on writerly mentors and production--and a new gently dystopic story from THIS TIME, WHILE WE'RE AWAKE (forthcoming Spring 2013) entitled "Please Be Careful with the Children" at the debut issue of Open Road Review.

April 2012

New essay posted about Heather's experience with social networking--asking people to get off line and be more human.  Have a read.  "On the Necessity of Reclaiming the Private Life: Unplug At Will."  Soon to come sometime in April, the online release of the title story for PEOPLE WITH HOLES. 

March 2012

"People With Holes," the title story of the forthcoming PEOPLE WITH HOLES (Pink Narcissus Press, Spring 2012) book, released in the Spring 2012 print issue of A cappella Zoo, A Web & Print Magazine of Magical Realism & Slipstream.  The news is that this issue sold out at the AWP table this month.  Pick up a copy.  The web-version will release in April.

Heather's magical realist story "With the Silence of A Deer" released in Sententia 4: What She Said, The All-Women Writers issue.  Check out the gorgeous cover!  Other contributers include some powerful female writers such as Sara Lippmann, Meg Tuite, Ching-in Chen, Andrea DeAngelis, and more.  This issue edited by Paula Bomer, Amy King and Jen Michalski.

A story from Heather's dystopia collection THIS TIME, WHILE WE'RE AWAKE entitled "Forgetting So Much Shining Light and Laughter" just released. 

Also, visit her RedRoom blog where Heather posts an essay entitled "A Plea for Artists to be Activists for Women's Rights: Don't Explain," riffing from a Billie Holiday tune.

February 2012

"The Life You Lie to Save May Be Your Own, On Becoming an Author"--stop in at Red Room where Heather publishes a rare autobiographical essay-- creative non-fiction, y'all-- on lying, Flannery O'Connor, and her own path to becoming an author. 

January 2012: 

"If Joyce Carol Oates and Angela Carter got it on and had a love child, it would be Heather Fowler. Fearless, beautiful, magic..." A gorgeous new review for Suspended Heart released at The Short Review, where they interviewed her about the debut collection and work forthcoming. 

Necessary Fiction's Origin series released an early story "A Faerie Tale" with some of her discussion about how early work informed her process. 

New story "Sight" about a blind girl's relationship with her mother is released in the Fall 2011 Feminist Studies issue on Feminist Histories and Institutional Practices.

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AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW, from Pink Narcissus Press.

 Heather's second magical realism story collection, PEOPLE WITH HOLES, has just been released for pre-order with Pink Narcissus Press and will be out the first week of July 2012--in trade paperback, Nook, and Kindle formats.  All author's proceeds to be donated to Planned Parenthood.  Pink Narcissus Press to match author's contribution. A bit about the book from the publisher:



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AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER WINTER 2013, from 

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Heather's third story collection THIS TIME, WHILE WE'RE AWAKE will be released by Aqueous Books next Spring.  A bit about the book from the publisher:

Fowler's new collection, This Time, While We're Awake, welcomes you to the worlds of egregious dystopias—environments where tornadoes come one after another as neighbors spar, drugged breeders make babies in the near-future for the sterile rich, humans fxpro bitcoin are sacrificed by contract to aliens who protect them, and the government provides zombie murder buses for insurgents while testing middle-class children, in advance, to fill the needs of militants and industry. In this collection, Fowler examines what it means to be fair and humane in the surreal landscapes where the ruling factions are neither of these things. Come and get your Practice Baby, if you'd like to try parenting. Take an injection to experience love without a partner. This collection showcases not only Fowler's trademark heart and humor, but also a darker dimension of commentary similar to Bradbury or The Twilight Zone. Selected stories in this volume have been published internationally and online.



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