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Heidi Kasa is the author of Split (Monday Night Press, 2022). Her fiction and poetry have garnered awards, and have appeared in Barrelhouse, Ruminate, and The Racket, among others. She creates handmade artist books and works as an editor in Austin.
Books
Split, chapbook (Monday Night Press, August 20th, 2022)
The Beginners, chapbook (Digging Press, forthcoming 2025)
Artist Poetry Books
Burlesque Interludes (fall 2023)
Crushed Flowers Bare Their Hearts (fall 2022)
Seaweed (sold at City Lights bookstore 2004-2005, and next print run 2022-present)
Fiction
“Mechanical Mommy,” fiction in the Mixed Bag of Tricks anthology (Murasaki Press, November 2023) print
“Ghosts Are Hungry,” flash (Digging Through the Fat Journal, winter 2022) online
“A Small Death,” flash (The Waterwheel Review, fall 2022) online
“A Grief That Shatters Oceans,” flash (The Raw Art Review, April 2022) print
“Robot You,” flash (Ab Terra, December 2021) online
“The Last Pioneers,” flash (The Racket Journal, October 2021) online
“Conversation,” flash (Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, 2019) print
“Another Night,” flash (Spires, 1999) print
Poetry
"When I Write I Feel Close to You and When I Write I Feel You Close," and "Son of a Gun," (Poetry Super Highway, July 2024) poet of the week/judge feature online
"The Bullet Renames," (Plaza Prose Poetry, May 29) anthology forthcoming
"The Bullet Cures," (Sappho's Torque, Angelique Jamail's blog, April 2024) online
"The Bullet Cures," (Poetry Super Highway, October 2023) online
Featured Poet at Ephemera Literary Substack Newsletter for July 2023: “With Dust,” “The Bullet Cures,” “The Bullet Never Quite Stops,” and “The Bullet Gives Away”—online
“Love Poems Are Changelings,” (Quilled Ink Review, December 8, 2023) print
“Pull-Push,” (The Passionfruit Review, spring 2023) online
“Current and Never Events” poem video created by T.A. Niles and hosted by The Human Room Open Voice by C.C. Arshagra June 2022—online
“This Is Poetry,” in the anthology Once Upon a Poem April 2022—print
“Water Is the Body,” poetry broadside in The Cobalt Cafe November 2021—online
“Will It” and “Running in the Same Place,” poems (Monday Night Lit, 2018) online
Nonfiction
"Barrelhouse Reviews: A Rupture in the Interiors by Valerie Witte" (Barrelhouse, April 2024) online
"One Day This Book: A Review of Miah Jeffra’s The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!” (Ruminate: The Waking, May 2022) online
“Bringing Human Dignity Into Medical Experiences” (Medium, 2022) online
“What I Learned After 2 American Hospital Births, Plus 9 Tips” (Medium, 2021) online
“Where Is the Mind During Pain (and Birth)?” (Medium, 2021) online
Honors
"The Bullet Renames"—winner of the 2024 Plaza Prose Poetry Contest (May 2024)
“The Bullet Cures”—winner of the 2023 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest (October 2023) online
The Beginners—winner of the 2023 Digging Press Chapbook competition
"The Bullet Ages"—finalist, Eastern Shore Writers Association Crossroads Contest 2024
"Monstrous" and "How Alice"—semifinalists, The Ghost Story flash fiction 2024
“Some Kind of Light” and “Ghosts Are Hungry”—semifinalists, The Ghost Story flash fiction 2022
“Robot You”—shortlisted, Fractured Lit flash fiction 2021
Split—finalist, Black River Chapbook competition 2019
“Teetering on the Edge: Poised to the State of Being (a poetry portfolio)”—winner of the Alpha Chi Humanities Award, spring 2004
Readings and Panels
Lions Like Us launch party at Vintage Bookstore & Wine in Austin, August 18, 2024
Red Light Lit in Austin, July 31, 2024
The Mixed Bag of Tricks launch party at Alienated Majesty Books in Austin, November 18, 2023
Come As You Are at Neon Grotto in Austin, September 5, 2023
Art Expressions L.A., September 2, 2023 (virtual)
Red Light Lit Anniversary Party in Austin, April 30, 2023
Red Light Lit Lounge Party in Austin, April 23, 2023
Beasts of Bourbon in Oakland, June 15, 2023
The Racket Reading Series: Broke Up, Broke Down, Broke Even in San Francisco, February 2, 2023
Hollie Hardy’s Homecoming in Oakland, October 2022
Saturday Night Special, August 2022 (virtual)
The Cobalt Cafe, November 2021 (virtual)
Club Chicxulub I in San Francisco, October 2021
Vax Party, April 2021 (virtual)
“Renshi: Poetry ‘Linking’ Cultures,” presented at Poetry of the 70s Conference, September 2008
“Mutual Influence in the Films of Kubrick and Kieslowski,” presented at the 9th Annual Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference, spring 2004
Selection of poetry presented at the 8th Annual Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference, 2003
Interviews and Reviews
“Heidi Kasa—Expanding in Every Direction,” in Heidi Fiedler’s Substack Nebula Notebook and Mothers Who Make Mondays (online)
“Heidi Kasa’s Split—New from Monday Night Press” by T.A. Niles (online)
Service and Relevant Volunteering
Judge, Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest 2024
Board Member, Publishing Professionals Network (PPN), 2022-2024
Chapter Co-Coordinator, Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), 2018-2024
Founder, Creator's Life, 2015-present
Tutor, English as a second language, 2009-2011