Dr. Heather Simeney MacLeodAssistant Professor | Faculty of Arts
Email: hmacleod@tru.ca
Homepage URL: https://heathersimeneymacleod.my.canva.site/
Interests
As a mother of a rambunctious boy and a cranky cat, I am quite busy. I do enjoy quilting and gardening though I know little about either.
Research Interests
Creative Writing (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction), Film Studies (contemporary American film), representations of racialized corporeality in popular culture, and Red River Metis writing and storytelling.
Education
PhD, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta
MSc, Department of English, University of Edinburgh
BA, Department of Writing, University of Victoria
Publications
BOOKS
Let the Bees Go Then, Barbarian Press, 2026
The Little Yellow House, University of McGill Press, 2012
Intermission, J. Shillingford Press, 2012
The Burden of Snow, Touchstone Books, 2006
My Flesh the Sound of Rain, Coteau Books, 1998
ANTHOLOGIES
The Hour of Darkness, Calgary Press, 2005
Running Barefoot: Women Write the Land, Rowan Books, 2001
Our Words, Our Revolutions: Di/Verse Voices of Black Women, First Nations Women, and Women of Colour in
Canada, Inanna Publications, 2001
Re:VERSE!, Re:Print Publications, 2000
Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets, Harbour Publishing, 1995
The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women, Sister Vision Press,
1993
Numerous creative writing publications in journals, periodicals, and magazines, such as SubTerrain,
Event, Geist, Prism International, The Malahat Review, Arc, Grain, and The Fiddlehead.
Employment History
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Visual Arts at Thompson Rivers University, since
2019
Principal Instructor, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, 2008-2016
Principal Instructor, Department of English, MacEwan University, 2011-2016
Courses Taught
This year I'm teaching CMNS 2150: Collective and Connective Indigenous Voices (autumn 2026) and an Introduction to Creative Writing (CRWR 1150) in the winter of 2027 semester.
Professional Affiliations
Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA), PEN Canada, Writers Union of Canada, Federation of BC Writers
