Heather Dewar is an award-winning writer whose short fiction and essays have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Baltimore Review, New South, The Common Review, Utne and Chicago Reader among other publications. She holds an MA in English from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and an MA in fiction writing from Northwestern University. She is a past participant of the Tin House Summer Workshop, the One Story Summer Writers’ Conference and the One Story Writing Circle. In 2015, she was named a finalist for the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant. She lives with her family near Seattle.