HEIDI VAN HORN

Heidi Van Horn is a poet, editor, and book designer. She is the author of Belated Poem (Drop Leaf Press, 2019) and co-creator, with David Makaaha Kwon, of “House of David,” a poetic assemblage exploring the personal and political geography of mass incarceration. Her writing and interviews have appeared in Adroit Journal, Alta Journal, the Brooklyn Rail, Elderly, and elsewhere. Heidi received her BA in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. She was raised and still lives in the Bay Area, where she is co-editor at Drop Leaf Press, a women-run poetry collective, and a founding member of The Ruby, a gathering space for women and non-binary artists.