Heather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize (University of Utah Press). It was recommended by O, the Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR (KQED Arts), and The Millions, and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her poems, essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as Best New Poets, Blackbird, Boston Review, Drunken Boat, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, jubilat, New American Writing, and West Branch. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Vermont Studio Center. She taught creative writing for several years, including at Purdue University, San Francisco State University, and in the graduate program at the University of San Francisco. She lives in San Francisco, where she is working on a new book manuscript and learning to surf.
