Heather Brown Barrett is an award-winning poet and writer in southeastern Virginia. She mothers her young son and contemplates life, the universe, and everything with her writer husband. She is a Cherokee Nation citizen, the current Membership Chair of The Poetry Society of Virginia, a member and student of The Muse Writers Center, and a former board member of Hampton Roads Writers.
Her work has appeared in Literary Mama, The Ekphrastic Review, Yellow Arrow Journal, formidable Woman sanctuary, Black Bough Poetry, OyeDrum Magazine, and elsewhere. Her poetry is featured on the Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail as part of The Poetry Society of Virginia’s Poetry on the Trail project, and was previously featured in the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Everyone Has a Storyexhibit.
Her first book of poetry, Water in Every Room, was a semi-finalist for the 2024 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award and is now available from Kelsay Books.