Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor, poet and author Heather Fowler . They discuss the infamous iPhone application censorship that involved one of Heather’s Flash Fiction stories . More about that story here and on the podcast. Need Censorship? There’s an App for That!
HEATHER FOWLER received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in 1997. She has taught Literature, Writing, or Composition related courses at UCSD, Modesto Junior College, and California State University Stanislaus. She is the Poetry Editor at Corium Magazine. Her poetry has recently appeared in The San Diego Poetry Annual 2009 (2010); poeticdiversity (December 2009); The Medulla Review (Fall 2009); INTHEFRAY (February 2007), Empowerment4Women.com (November 2007), and been selected for a joint first place in the 2007 Faringdon Online Poetry Competition (October 2007), as well as published in various venues including: the Map of Austin Poetry, The Coast Highway Review, the Driftwood Highway 1999 Anthology, Joe’s Journal, Best of the Beach 1998, The Publication, and the Cityworks Literary Anthology, Volume 6. She runs an open participation annual Poem A Day in July marathon at her MySpace creative blog.
Her fictive work was among short-listed stories on the 2009 Story South Million Writers Awards Notable Stories of 2008 list. Among other venues, her stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming from: The Portland Review (forthcoming), Feminist Studies (forthcoming), DOGZPLOT Magical Realism Issue (forthcoming), Up the Staircase Review (forthcoming); Necessary Fiction (forthcoming); The Big Toe Review (Winter 2010) BlazeVOX (2k9, Fall 2009); Emprise Review (Volume 11, November 2009); Surreal South 09(Press 53, November 2009); DOGZPLOT (Fall 2009); decomP JMWW (print anth. Spring 2010, web Summer 2009); Etchings (7, ilura press, July 2009); PANK Magazine (4.6, June 2009); Night Train (Issue 9.1, Spring 2009); The Abacot Journal (Spring 2009); Underground Voices (November 2008); A Cappella Zoo (Print: October 2008, Volume I, Online Reprint June 2009). KeyHole (August 2008); Trespass (August/September 2008, UK); SubLit (August 2008); Coming Together: With Pride (Phaze, 2008, e-book and print); Word Riot (May 2008); Storyglossia #28 (May 2008); Cityworks 2008 (May 2008); DOGZPLOT FLASH FICTION (2008, online and print); Temenos (Fall 2007); Mississippi Review online (October 2007); See You Next Tuesday (2006); and Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry (Winter 2006). the muse apprentice guild (October 2002), artisan, a journal of craft (September 2002), Literary PotPourri (May 2002), Exquisite Corpse (Summer 2001), The Barcelona Review (May, 2001), Quercus Review (May, 2001), Penumbra (May 2001), B & A New Fiction (Jan. 2001), Barbaric Yawp (Dec. 2000), Zoetrope All-Story Extra (June 2001, October and December 1999). She worked as a Guest Editor for Zoetrope All-Story Extra in March and April of 2000.
Her book of magical realism stories, Suspended Heart, is forthcoming from Aqueous Books in late 2010 or early 2011. Please visit her website for a linked-in bio at www.heatherfowlerwrites.com.
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