tic tic tic

by Heidi Seaborn

120 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2025

About the author

Heidi Seaborn wrote poetry as a teenager then pursued a career as a communications executive, serving as Chief Communications Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the European CEO for a major global communications firm and elsewhere. She moved 27 times, raised three children, divorced, remarried and then after a 40-year hiatus, returned to poetry in 2016. Since then, she’s authored two full-length collections of poetry, including PANK Books 2020 Poetry Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021), Give a Girl Chaos (C&R Press, 2019) and three chapbooks of poetry including the 2020 Comstock Review Prize Chapbook, Bite Marks (2021), as well as Finding My Way Home (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Once a Diva (dancing girl press, 2021). She’s won or been shortlisted for over two dozen awards. Her poetry and essays have recently appeared in American Poetry Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry, Brevity, Copper Nickel, The Cortland Review, The Financial Times, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Washington Post and elsewhere. She is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU and a BA from Stanford University. After living all over the world, she now resides in her hometown of Seattle.