Heather Thompson-Brenner

Heather Thompson-Brenner (she/her) is an emerging fiction writer in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her fiction and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares Literary Magazine, Electric Literature, North Dakota Quarterly, and Fiction On The Web.

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She is a graduate of the MFA program for Creative Writing at Boston University, where she received the Saul Bellow Fellowship and a Leslie Epstein Travel Fellowship. She is revising her debut novel, The Book of Revelation(s), about a rebellious teenager, her anxiety-ridden mother, and a Christian FBI informant pursuing conflicting agendas in a liberal commune in 1981.

 

Dr. Thompson-Brenner works as a clinical psychologist in Cambridge and spends her spare time in the Berkshires. Everywhere, children and dachshunds abound. A passionate but undiscriminating sports fan, Thompson-Brenner is particularly fond of Ultimate Frisbee and natural horsemanship.