VOTM: What's the most unusual experience you've ever had at a reading?
HEATHER: I scared off a troup of Girl Scouts at an outdoor multiple stage reading in San Diego. I was reading from a group of edgy, literary fairy tale poems, and the Girl Scouts wanted to attend--"Ooh, fairy tales! Let's go to that!"--before the troup leader realized this was not content for children. I have never lived that down, as my feminist performance art poet friend shared the stage with me that day--and recalls it quite vividly, the exodus that is...
Heather Fowler received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University. Her fiction has been published online and in print in the US, England, Australia, and India. Her debut magical realism collection SUSPENDED HEART is available at Aqueous Books. Come see Heather read at Vermin on the Mount at Sushi Performance & Visual Art on Saturday, February 19 at 8pm.
