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Heather Fowler

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Women & Gender Studies

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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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Average rating: 4.1 · 375 ratings · 118 reviews · 44 distinct works

	Suspended Heart 4.09 avg rating — 53 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 4.15 avg rating — 40 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 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — 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 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	People with Holes 3.84 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
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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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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

by Giulia Enders

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Night and Day

by Virginia Woolf

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Maldoror and the Complete Works

by Comte de Lautréamont

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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

tags: civilization, writers, writing

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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.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing

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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.”
― Mark Twain

tags: on-writing

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FABClub (Female Authors Book Club) — 649 members — last activity May 16, 2025 05:56PM
We read books written by female authors and then we talk about them. All gender identities are welcome to become members of this group. All book selec ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 296811 members — last activity 2 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Flash Fiction — 311 members — last activity Feb 22, 2023 07:56AM
Flash is a short-short story characterized by brevity and intensity of the language. It borderlines poetry and some people call it “prose poem.” Howev ...more

Courage of Fear Quotes of the Day — 119 members — last activity Aug 05, 2009 02:18PM
Each day on other social networks and on my blog I post an inspirational quote from my novel, Courage of Fear. I then post a personal story that someh ...more

The Smoking Poet Fans — 218 members — last activity Mar 01, 2019 05:53AM
"Words that turn the page to flame." It's all about an ambiance. The smoky, dim light when you enter, the jazz quartet playing smooth and easy in th ...more

Word Riot Press — 153 members — last activity Jan 05, 2010 11:28AM
For fans of online literary magazine Word Riot and its small press extension Word Riot Press

A Brief History of Time with Shaindel Beers — 63 members — last activity Oct 04, 2009 06:05AM
Feel free to ask questions about specific poems from the book, influences, or anything poetical, from May 08, 2009 to June 07, 2009...

The Nervous Breakdown — 176 members — last activity Aug 16, 2022 08:46PM
The Nervous Breakdown is an online culture magazine and literary collective featuring the work of hundreds of authors, poets, and other artists from a ...more

Bright Young Things — 1224 members — last activity Jan 03, 2023 09:21PM
...the perfect place for you to discuss your favourite authors from the early 20th Century. In the years from 1900 to 1945 the world of literature w ...more

Aqueous Books — 7 members — last activity Dec 23, 2011 02:18PM
Aqueous Books is the print arm of Prick of the Spindle, an online literary quarterly journal also available as a Kindle magazine.

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