Heather Fowler is a poet, fiction writer, podcaster, essayist, screenwriter, playwright, librettist, and a novelist. She is the author of the story collections Suspended Heart (Aqueous Books, Dec. 2010; Pink Narcissus Press, 2019; Hot Redhead Media (audiobook), 2020)); People with Holes (Pink Narcissus Press, July 2012); This Time, While We're Awake (Aqueous Books, May 2013); and Elegantly Naked In My Sexy Mental Illness (Queen's Ferry Press, May 2014; Hot Redhead Media, February 2020). Her novel Beautiful Ape Girl Baby was released as a trade and e-book by Pink Narcissus Press in 2016 and an author-narrated audiobook by Hot Redhead Media in April of 2020.
Fowler’s People with Holes was named a 2012 finalist for Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award in Short Fiction. Her stories and poems have been published online and in print in the U.S., England, Australia, and India, and appeared in such venues as PANK, Night Train, storyglossia, Surreal South, JMWW, Prick of the Spindle, Short Story America, The Nervous Breakdown, and others. She received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing with an emphasis in fiction from the University of New Orleans.
She recently finished the TFT Professional Program in Screenwriting at UC Los Angeles and has written five feature films she is editing and looking forward to submitting. Greetings, creative people! :)
Unique traits: Can write form poetry in 30 different forms. Loves to write high concept films and stories + collaborate with talented creatives. Embraces projects with strong female leads of many ages. Also hosts a book and cocktails podcast, so let me mix you a drink.
THIRTEEN WOMEN Budget: $100K - $1M | Historical ⋄ Thriller Based on Nabokov's famous story "A Nursery Tale," In 1920s Weimar Germany, a female incarnation of Satan gives a villa of thirteen women enchanted in love to geeky Erwin Danmer--and it's all fun and games till the jealousies and murders begin.
STAR FAMILIES Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller In a battle on the sun where soul energy from ghosts is the coin of the realm, black sheep Hilary Black must decide between helping her wealthy, established family drain the souls of the poor for eternal life--and helping the people locked into slavery who desperately need a hero.
THE SUICIDE MINISTRIES Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller After being seduced by a hacker in her Breed Lab, acclaimed dreamscaper Juliet Beckinsale is framed by him for murder and must be cleared by the government's Suicide Ministries in time to save her dreamers and herself.
THE KHARALS Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller For hundreds of years in Reddenbery, the townspeople regularly hide to avoid human sacrifice to aliens called the Kharals, but when teenager Harbo Jones wants to enlist old flame Nelihi Davies in his rebellion against the slaughter, she must choose between following the old ways of hiding and joining her lover against subterranean aliens and the town’s corrupt leadership.
UCLA
(2020-2021)
UNO
(2013-2015)
Hollins University
(1996-1997)
UCSD
(1992-1996)