About

Heather L. Davis has been writing since she was a teen. She earned a B.A. in English from Hollins University and an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University. She has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction is numerous journals and anthologies.

Heather attended the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, and is a winner of the Hayden Carruth Poetry Prize at Syracuse University, a Larry Neal Writer’s Award, Bethesda Literary Festival essay and poetry prizes, the Arlington County Moving Words Poetry Contest, the Luzerne County Poetry in Transit Contest, and the Lancaster County Poetry in Transit Contest.

She is the author of The Lost Tribe of Us, which won the 2007 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and has published short stories in the Rehoboth Beach Reads anthology series and the anthology Us Against Alzheimer’s. Her essay “Be the Ocean: Everyday Lessons in Rage” appeared in Furious Gravity: D.C. Women Writers. Her poems have appeared in Quartet Journal, Gargoyle, ASP Bulletin, Cream City Review, Poet Lore, Puerto del Sol, and Sonora Review, among others.

On the professional side, Heather has worked as a communications and publications professional for nonprofit organizations such as JSI, The Manoff Group, IREX, and the Casualty Actuarial Society. She loves to help mission-driven organizations translate complex ideas into clear, engaging publications that build credibility, drive engagement, and improve content operations. She has partnered with subject matter experts and senior leadership to produce publications that inform, engage, and elevate institutional credibility. Whether crafting toolkits, directing knowledge dissemination, or refining editorial workflows, she bring clarity, structure, and strategy to every stage of the publishing process.

Heather lives in Lancaster, PA with her husband, the poet José Padua, and their son and daughter. She runs a writer’s group and has organized numerous community art and poetry events around social justice themes. She is at work on a young adult novel in verse.