Thomas Heise

MA, University of California-Davis. PhD, New York University. Heise is the author of Moth; or how I came to be with you again (Sarabande) and Horror Vacui: Poems (Sarabande), as well as The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel (Columbia) and Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (Rutgers). His poetry, short stories, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Santa Monica Review, The Missouri Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Wigleaf, American Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, and elsewhere. Heise has held residencies at MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Arts, and American Academy in Rome. A former professor at McGill University, he is currently a professor of creative writing and American literature at Pennsylvania State University (Abington), as well as a guest faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College. SLC, 2025–

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