McComas, Heather

Heather McComas won the 2008 Leo Love Merit Scholarship to attend the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, where she studied with Pam Houston.  Heather’s short story “What You’re Looking At” was published in the 2007 anthology Further Persons Imperfect; she has also been published as a science writer.  She is currently finishing a trio of long stories and is conducting research for her first novel.  Heather earned her Master’s in English at the University of Kansas, and has both studied and substitute-taught fiction writing in Northwestern University’s Mini Course Program.  She has also studied in the Chicago-based Advanced Fiction Writing workshop.  Heather lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, fellow fiction writer Paul McComas.