Audrey Heffers
PhD Student
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Current Courses
ENG 125.001 Literary Narrative
ENG 125.003 Literary Narrative
Teaching Interests & Areas
Creative Writing (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, genre fiction, hybrid, mixed-media); Queer Literature
Research Interests & Areas
Creative Writing (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, genre fiction, hybrid, mixed-media); Creative Writing Studies; Queer Studies; Disability Studies; Inclusive Pedagogy & Praxis; Embodied Pedagogy; Public Humanities & Community-Engaged Scholarship
MA English
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
MFA Creative Writing
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR
BA Creative Writing
Susquehanna University
Selinsgrove, PA
Book, Authored
What Blooms in the Dark
Audrey T Heffers.
(2024), ELJ Editions
In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be
Audrey T Heffers.
(2023), kith books
Parts of Speech: A Disabled Dictionary
Audrey T Heffers.
(2023), Alien Buddha Press
The Gaia Hypothesis
Audrey T Heffers.
(2023), Alien Buddha Press
Queen of Pentacles
Audrey T Heffers.
(2016), Choose the Sword Press
Book, Edited
Musing the Margins: Essays on Craft
Audrey T Heffers.
(2020), Human/Kind Press
Presentations
“Hybridity & Experimentation in the Margins of Creative Writing”
Audrey Heffers.
Bridges and Borders Conference, Online, April, 2024
“Dualities of Safety & Terror in Queer Fiction”
Audrey Heffers.
NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference: Home/Bodies, Online, April, 2024
“Reading for Pleasure: Revolutionary Potential in Queer Graphic Novels”
Audrey Heffers.
Goblin Modes: Pleasure, Care, and Disobedience, Online, March, 2024
“Unbecoming Expectations: On Innovative Descriptions”
Audrey Heffers.
Intersectional Studies Conference, Online, March, 2024
“Queer Paths Toward Home: Kinship in Speculative Fiction”
Audrey Heffers.
Mythopoeic Society’s Online Midwinter Seminar, Online, February, 2024
“Imaginary Margins: Disability Poetics & Reinventing the Page”
Audrey Heffers.
Rethinking Crisis & Status Quo Symposium, Online, February, 2024
“Crip Queer Storytelling: An Intersectional Analysis”
Audrey Heffers.
Creative Writing Studies Conference, Online, October, 2023
“Bi Becoming: (Re)Defining the Self”
Audrey Heffers.
Encounters Conference, Online, May, 2023
“Laboring Toward Liberation: Literature as a Tool of Resistance”
Audrey Heffers.
Bridges and Borders Conference, Online, April, 2023
“Cultivating Sustainable Creative Writing Practice”
Audrey T Heffers.
Creative Writing Studies Conference, Online, November, 2022
“Queer Love, Queer Life: On Transcending Genre”
Audrey T Heffers.
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference, Online, November, 2022
“The Radical Possibility of Queer Imagination”
Audrey T Heffers.
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Online, November, 2022
“SF/Fantasy Awards: Recognition, Inclusion, and Controversy”
Audrey T Heffers.
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference, Online, November, 2021
“The Magic of Queer Found Families”
Audrey T Heffers.
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference, Online, November, 2021
“In the Room Where It Happens: Access, Equity, and the Creative Writing Classroom”
Audrey T Heffers.
Creative Writing Studies Conference, Online, October, 2021
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
Audrey T Heffers.
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston, MA, March, 2020