Heather Beier has a 2:1 BA (Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University and a MA (Distinction) in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Sheffield, she is currently a WRoCAH funded PhD candidate within the English Department at the University of Sheffield. Her research is creative-critical and focuses on alternative mothering identities. Her PhD project integrates extra-textual media in the exploration of maternal identity, in order to explore the nuances and intersections of psychogeography, class, trauma, loss and disability.
Accomplishments:
- Organised the School of English Colloquium ‘Transcendence and the Sacred’
- Presented Curdled Milk (a creative-critical reading) at the School of English Colloquium ‘Archive and Presentation’.
- Presented “‘the vocabulary is curiously thin,’ Denise Riley and a Language of Consolation: Putting the Unnameable into Words” at the International Women’s Writing Conference [Online]
Daily writing prompt
If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time?
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