Heather Christle

Heather Christle is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. A poet and nonfiction writer, her hybrid memoir The Crying Book (2019) received the Georgia Book Award and international translation. Her work explores intersections of personal experience and literary history.

Her forthcoming memoir In the Rhododendrons examines intergenerational trauma through engagement with Virginia Woolf's writings. Christle's poetry collections have been adapted for dance by Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Recognition includes Howard Foundation Fellowship and Believer Book Award. Her essays appear in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, and anthologies.