Heather Hasselle is a writer and educator in New Orleans, Louisiana.
She spent two years as an editorial assistant at American Short Fiction and taught creative writing to kids, teens, and adults through Austin Bat Cave , Badgerdog Publishing, and HIVE. She was a 2019 resident at Sundress Academy for the Arts and has attended various workshops, including the Tin House Summer Workshop in 2016 and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2021.
She currently works in New Orleans, teaching art and creative writing through non-profit programs Young Audiences of Louisiana and Community Works.
She has fiction in Pithead Chapel, Nurture Literary, and forthcoming in Joyland Magazine. Heather is at work on a novel, Dirt Don’t Hurt, based on a childhood spent with her racecar-driving dad at dirt tracks across the American South.
Author Photo taken by Hannah Patterson