About

Heather Buchanan is a first-generation American. She was born in Los Angeles and had a childhood that was filled with just enough love and chaos to make her interesting. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing and has spent most of her life working in the child care and child education fields. 

She is obsessed with other people’s obsessions. She loves to see what people do in their spare time, especially when it is astonishingly specific. The more money, time, and effort they put into these hobbies or events, the more she is interested in what draws them to it. They often lead to entire worlds that she knew nothing about with rules and rulers that don't apply anywhere else. There is art, beauty, pain, suffering, and humanity in unexpected places we all pass by everyday and never give a second glance to. What makes a person spend thousands of dollars buying customized wetsuits and surfboards so that they can surf with their dogs? Why do people use their free time to practice eating as many hot dogs as they can in ten minutes? Who would work two jobs so that they can open a Bigfoot museum in the middle of the woods that is only open on weekends? These questions always make her wonder what she is missing and reminds her that there is still magic in the world. 
 

Her work has appeared in Crime Magazine, The Vignette Review, ReARTED Zine, Campus Voices, Student to Student,The Campus Survival Guide, and Morkan’s Horse. Her non-fiction will appear in an upcoming online issue of New Ohio Review. She was a finalist for The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize in 2022. 

She lives in California with her husband, toddler daughter, and two German Shepherds. She spends most of her time trying to convince children not to stick that thing up their nose.