HEATHER CORBALLY BRYANT (formerly Heather Bryant Jordan) teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. Previously, she taught at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard College where she won awards for her teaching. She received her A.B. with honors in History and Literature from Harvard where she received the Boston Ruskin Prize for her thesis, "Sight and Sensibility: A Study of Praeterita." She received her PhD in Modern British and Irish Literature from the University of Michigan where she was a Regents Fellow. Her academic publications include, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War (University of Michigan Press, 1992). This study of the relationship between war and literature was awarded the Donald R. Murphy Prize for best first book. In addition, she has assisted in the research for the Cornell Yeats Series as well as publishing articles on Bowen, Yeats, O'Faolain, and T.S. Eliot. She has given papers at international conferences and was a plenary speaker at the centennial celebration of Elizabeth Bowen held at University College, Cork. Beyond her academic publications, Heather Corbally Bryant has published five books of poetry. The Finishing Line Press published her first poetry chapbook, Cheap Grace, in 2011. In addition, she has published poems in The Christian Science Monitor and the 2007 anthology of poetry, In Other Words. The Parallel Press Poetry Series of the University of Wisconsin Libraries published Lottery Ticket, her second chapbook in 2013. She has given readings at The Pennsylvania State University, The University of Wisconsin at Madison, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Southern Florida University in Ft. Lauderdale, Folio Bookstore, San Francisco the Palmer Art Museum in State College, the Transatlantic Connections Conference in Donegal, Ireland, Wellesley College, the University of Kentucky, Notre Dame, Georgia State, and Harvard College. Compass Rose, her third poetry collection, from The Finishing Line Press appeared in March 2016. Her first full-length collection of poetry, My Wedding Dress, was published by the Finishing Line Press in November 2016. Her fifth volume, and second full-length collection, Thunderstorm, appeared from the Finishing Line Press in the summer of 2017. And her sixth book of poems, Eve's Lament, will be published by The Finishing Line Press in the winter of 2018. Her work of creative non-fiction, You Can't Wrap Fire in Paper, will appear in the spring of 2018, along with the reissue of Assigned to Adventure, her grandmother's 1938 autobiography (Ardent Writer Press).
