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Heather Lanier is an Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at Rowan University’s Ric Edelman College of Communication & Creative Arts. She holds a BA from the University of Delaware, MAT from Johns Hopkins University, and MFA from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on memoir, creative nonfiction, and experimental essay forms, emphasizing the intersection of personal narrative and societal expectations. Lanier is renowned for her memoir Raising a Rare Girl (Penguin Press, 2020), which explores parenting a child with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and her poetry collection Psalms of Unknowing (2023). She has delivered a viral TED Talk viewed 3 million times, advocating for redefining societal judgments of 'good' and 'bad' lives.
Her work appears in TIME, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal, and she has received grants from the Ohio Arts Council and Vermont Studio Center. Lanier teaches graduate and undergraduate creative writing courses, emphasizing the musicality of language and the role of research in personal writing. She also runs The Slow Take, a newsletter reflecting on human experiences through a lens of curiosity and empathy.
