Heather’s debut novel THE GILDED BUTTERFLY EFFECT is forthcoming from Three Rooms Press in October 2025. Her short fiction has won awards including the Oxford Review of Books short fiction prize, the Hopwood Award, the BNU-Oxford short fiction prize (runner-up), and the Desperate Literature Prize shortlist. Heather is a PhD student in English Literature at Oxford University. She holds a master’s in literature from St Andrew’s and a bachelor’s in the same subject from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.