Heather is a Toronto poet and performer who works across disciplines, including poetry, sound, video, installation, physical theatre and new media. Her work has taken her from Canada to Hungary to Bosnia to Mexico to Panama to China to the Internet. She was a finalist in CBC Radio's National Poetry Face-Off and the Canadian Spoken Wordlympics in 2004, and she performed at the launch of CBC Radio's groundbreaking spoken word series WordBeat. Throughout the years, Heather has been especially honoured to have been an apprentice to California-based storytelling elder Orunamamu.
In addition to being an occasional guest vocalist with Rubberneck, Heather teaches Community Arts at York University and is an Ontario Arts Council Artist in Education, teaching Canadian History through performed poetry.
