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Heather Fowler is a poet, a fiction writer, a playwright, and a novelist. She is the author of the novel Beautiful Ape Girl Baby (2016) and the story collections Suspended Heart (2010, 2nd edition 2019), People with Holes (2012), This Time, While We're Awake (2013), and Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness (2014). Fowler’s People with Holes was named a 2012 finalist for Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award in Short Fiction. Her fictive work has been made into fine art in several instances and her collaborative poetry collection, Bare Bulbs Swinging, written with Meg Tuite and Michelle Reale, is the winner of the 2013 TWIN ANTLERS PRIZE FOR COLLABORATIVE POETRY released in December of 2014. Fowler has published stories and poems onli ...more

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	Suspended Heart 4.07 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elegantly Naked in My Sexy Mental Illness 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful Ape Girl Baby 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People with Holes 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Time, While We're Awake 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rapunzel's Daughters and Other Tales by Josie E. Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rose Mambert (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bill Racicot (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women by Rosalie Morales Kearns (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heather Fowler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Soniah Kamal (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Re:Telling by William Walsh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Martone, Corey Mesler (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	States of Terror: Volume Two by Matt E. Lewis (Goodreads Author) (Co-editor), Keith McCleary (Goodreads Author) (Co-editor), Adam Miller (Art Director) 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stripped by Nicole Monaghan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amber Sparks (Goodreads Author), Jeanne Holtzman 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The New York Times features second edition of Suspended Heart

In a review article featuring new titles by Brian Evenson and the creator of Netflix’s cult animation series “BoJack Horseman," Bob Waksberg, NYT reviewer and author Scott Bradfield says Fowler's recently released edition of Suspended Heart offers a "bright and affectionate vision of mystical worlds" and "great ideas and characters."

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“It is ten minutes to midnight in South Bend, but this is no fairy tale. There's no coach, and there's no prince for miles. It's late, a night with a deceptively light sky, and Fionn tends her hearth in a dark home where only a small fire burns. Her heart is angry and her man is mean.”
― Heather Fowler, People with Holes

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“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

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“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”
― Elizabeth Drew

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“There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
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“There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.”
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