UNT Special Collections 2024 Research Fellowship Awardee

Heather Myers

Project Title

Portraiture and Paper Dolls: A Look at Women’s Lives

Project Description

Heather’s project is an examination of lineage and gender that will focus on material and artifacts like paper dolls. It will be a hybrid essay primarily crafted through collage, or an essay constructed in fragments, that examines the women in Heather’s lineage; she also plans to incorporate visual elements inspired by the artist Patricia Fertel. Through the Patricia Fertel Collection, she will examine femininity, girlhood, and womanhood, along with culture and the preoccupations that shaped women’s lives.

Biography

Heather Myers is from Altoona, PA. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from West Virginia University. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of North Texas. She was a 2018 AWP Intros Award Winner. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Door=Jar, Keystone: Poets on Pennsylvania, The Journal, Palette Poetry, Puerto Del Sol and elsewhere.