Heather Haley
Author and media poet, Heather Haley was born in
Matapedia, Quebec, and raised in Manitoba, the Kootenays and
Cloverdale,
B.C. She was employed for many years as a staff writer, editor and arts
reviewer for the LA Weekly before returning to Canada in 1993. Spoken
word
was Heather’s beat and she published many fine poets in the paper.
Heather also published Rattler,
a critically acclaimed multimedia arts and
literary journal and her work has appeared in numerous North American
publications: the Antigonish Review,
Northern Lights, sub-TERRAIN , On The
Bus, Heresies, High Performance, Medusa, Verb, Arts Vancouver
and the
Manic D Press anthology, The Verdict
Is In. Find her online at: Bard's
Ink, the University of Manitoba's e-zine, Treeline and e-poets.net.
Architect of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem
Festival, Heather has appeared at the Vancouver Public Library,
Kootenay
School of Writing, Word on the Street Festival, Thundering Word Heard
and
Bravo Art Channel's Book Television. Heather is an accomplished
performer,
singing and writing songs for a series of groups, including the .45s
with
Randy Rampage and HHZ, (Heather Haley & the Zellots) praised by
music
critic Craig Lee and selected as one of Ten Great LA Bands. Her
videopoem,
Dying For the Pleasure,
premiered at Pacific Cinémathèque in 2003 and
Sideways, a collection of
verse published by Anvil Press, debuted last
year as well.
Selected
Publications
Dying For the Pleasure,
(videopoem premiered at Pacific
Cinemathequem 2003).
Sideways (Anvil Press,
2003) ISBN 1-89636-54-X.
Selected Anthologies
The Verdict Is In (Manic D,
1992) ISBN 1-89636-54-X.
Books in Print
Haley, Heather
Sideways, Poetry (Anvil Press,
2003) ISBN 1-89636-54-X, $14.00.
Heather Haley
hshaley@emspace.com
www.heatherhaley.com
