Heidi Seaborn

Heidi Seaborn wrote poetry as a teenager then pursued a career as a communications executive, serving as Chief Communications Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the European CEO for a major global communications firm and elsewhere. She moved 27 times, raised three children, divorced, remarried and then after a 40-year hiatus, returned to poetry in 2016. Since then she’s authored two full-length collections of poetry, including PANK Books 2020 Poetry Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021), Give a Girl Chaos (Mastodon Books, 2019) and three chapbooks of poetry including the 2020 Comstock Review Prize Chapbook, Bite Marks, as well as Finding My Way Home (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Once a Diva (dancinggirl press, 2021). She’s won or been shortlisted for over two dozen awards. Her work has recently appeared in American Poetry Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, The Cortland Review, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and elsewhere. She is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU and a BA from Stanford University. After living all over the world, she now resides in her hometown of Seattle.

Early Life
Heidi was born in Seattle, WA.

Goals
"'To continually push my craft, try new genres, experiment and continue to publish, and to mentor young poets.'"

Inspirations
"'I didn't write for decades and then once I returned to poetry, I can't imagine my life without it. My muse is the world around me and the life I've lived.'"

Philosophy
"'For me, the ability to write is a gift and the act of writing is to not only fulfill that gift but to give to others.'"

Publications
Books: "An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe" ([PANK] Books, 2021), "Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do}" (Mastodon Books, 2019), Chapbooks: "Bite Marks" (Comstock Review Press, 2021), "Finding My Way Home" (Finishing Line Press, 2018), American Journal of Poetry (July, 2020), Tinderbox Poetry Journal (January, 2021), Pedestal (December 2020), Greensboro Review (Fall, 2020), The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith (September 1, 2020).