

Heather Truett holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Memphis and is doing her PhD work in
fiction at FSU. Her debut novel, KISS AND REPEAT, was released in 2021. She is currently publishing poetry and short fiction.
Heather was born in Eastern Kentucky, sharing a hometown with Loretta Lynn, and she grew up in
South Carolina. She has lived most of her adult life in Mississippi, where she and her husband raised two children. Currently, she is thrilled to be living within walking distance of the ocean.

KISS AND REPEAT
Stephen Luckie isn't so lucky in love. He's completely inexperienced when it comes to girls, and wonders if his tics - caused by Tourette's Syndrome – are the reason.
Then a game at a party reveals that his body goes still while kissing. Using the scientific method drilled into him by his scientist father, Stephen begins the best experiment ever--one that involves kissing as many girls as possible. Who knew science could be so fun?
But when the experiment gets underway, Stephen begins to question how he treats girls - and if his tics have been standing in his way at all. With two girls interested in him, he has to figure out what really matters to him and what he'll risk - and gain - by being his true self.
Cover design by Mike Burroughs
PRESS & PANELS
Chapter 16
Friendly City Books
Buzzfeed
Mississippi Book Festival
Neuroclastic
On Southern Lit Journals

Publications

Poetry
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I Wish Aristotle has been Right About Birds - Whale Road Review
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Let Me Tell You What I Know About Beds - The Shore
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Pond Pastoral with a Side of Grief - Stirring Lit
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Love Sonnet for Edge Threadgoode - Sweet Lit
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To Be Predator and Prey - Summerset Review
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Pre-Elegy - Hunger Mountain
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My Multiverses - Abandon Journal
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Elegy Underwater - Thimble Lit
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Almost Sonnet for Learning to Love Myself - Rust + Moth
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Lilith - Product Magazine
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2 Poems - One Art
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2 Poems- Contrary Magazine
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Sonnet Written in Disappearing Ink - Grand Little Things
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In Case of Apocalypse, Break Poem - Split Rock Review
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There's a Party in Rachel, Nevada - Hawai'i Pacific Review
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A Poem of Peace From Insanely-Priced Leggings Reviews - Amethyst Review
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Uncut Cords - Eunoia Review
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Diagnosis - Neuroclastic
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The Girl Grew Deep - Anti-Heroin Chic
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The One with Shark Sex - Beaver Magazine
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Self-Care - collaboration with Haley Winans, Sundog Lit
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Outside the Kingdom Hall in 1982 - Jabberwock Review
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From Inside the Empty Nest - Inflectionist Review

Most Recent Publications
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I Am Pelican Mouthed - Luna Luna Magazine
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4 Poems - Blood+Honey
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Elegy for a Mole Crab - January House
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Class Notes: Feminism & Mobility in Literature - Screen Door Review
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5 Poems - Appalachian Review
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Viper - Trampoline
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Bird Watching with a Beer on a Beach Towel - Wildscape Lit
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Fuck, No, I Don't Want to Be Pregnant - Neologism Poetry
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You Came with a Tracking Number - Redamancy
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On Turning 40 in a World Where Women Still Need to March - Fifty Seven Percent Literary Review
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Forbidden Territory - Salt Hill Review
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2 Poems - Spoon Knife 9: Numbers, Neuroqueer Books

Prose
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Downfall - Flash Fiction Online
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Our Lady of the Thrice Blooming Fig Flower - Utopia Science Fiction
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Maggie Devlin, Reporting Live - Cosmic Daffodil Journal
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A Terrible Coincidence - Drunk Monkeys
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Counting Sunrises - Alternative Theologies, BCubed Press
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Crazy Old Broad in the Last Trailer on Row Three - Spoon Knife 7: Transitions, Neuroqueer Books
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The Music Comes in on Little Cat Feet - Spoon Knife 8: Smoke and Mirrors, Neuroqueer Books
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Luz Silenciosa (Silent Night) - a translation in La Prensa Latina
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Autistic Rep in An Unkindness of Ghosts - book review for Neuroclastic
“People think that stories are shaped by people.
In fact, it's the other way around.”
