Heather Sweeney

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Pronouns: She/Hers
Lecturer
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts

SDSU

Email

Primary Email: [email protected]

Building/Location

Professional Studies and Fine Arts - 219

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Bio

Heather C. Sweeney, a writer and artist, teaches writing classes at San Diego State University in the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts and the Honors College. In 2016, she earned an M.F.A. from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where I was the Allen Ginsberg Fellow. She has had two full-length poetry collections published in 2020 and is currently working on a novel.

Areas of Specialization

  • Writing
  • Contemporary art
  • Popular culture
 

Awards & Honors

  • Allen Ginsberg Fellow in the M.F.A. program for Writing at Naropa University, 2014-2016
 

Courses

  • PSFA 305W
  • PSFA 320
  • HONOR 313
 

Presentations

  • The Logical Link Between Mindfulness and Leadership/SDSU Leadership Summit, 2023
 

Publications

  • Dear Marshall, Language is Our Only Wilderness/Spuyten Duvil Press, 2020
  • Call Me California/Finishing Line Press, 2020

Service

  • Faculty Adviser for Kolorhouse 2022-present