Heather VandeRiet (Van-der-Eat)  is a fiction writer drawn to motivation and depth of character and story, whose poetry occasionally makes an appearance when it feels it has something to say. She is an MFA candidate in the Writing & Poetics program with the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Her work has appeared with Essay Press, Semicolon, Naropa’s 30/30 Poetic Vision and Naropa Writing Center’s Annual Reading: Across the Threshold. She also occasionally goes by the pen name H.J VandeRiet.