Heather Christle

Heather Christle is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Paper Crown. Her second book of poems, The Trees The Trees, won the Believer Book Award for Poetry, and was adapted into a ballet.Christle is also the author of two works of nonfiction: In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf, and The Crying Book, which has been translated into eight languages and adapted for radio by the BBC. She teaches at Emory University, where she is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing.