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SHORT FICTION, ESSAYS, & INTERVIEWS

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Interview for The Rumpus of Leanne Shapton about her collection, GUEST BOOK: GHOST STORIES, April 2019

https://therumpus.net/2019/04/the-rumpus-mini-interview-project-172-leanne-shapton/

“Worms,” Prairie Schooner, Spring 2019

“Heather Wells Peterson on Brian Blanchfield's PROXIES,” Essay Daily, Fall 2018

https://www.essaydaily.org/2018/12/dec-15-heather-wells-peterson-on-brian.html

"Steve at Home," Wigleaf, Fall 2017

http://wigleaf.com/201709steve.htm

 

"Is Television Finally Ready to Accept Unlikable Women?" Marie Claire, Spring 2017 

http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/news/a26063/unlikable-women-television/

 

"Blender," Subtropics, Winter 2016

http://subtropics.english.ufl.edu/index.php/2017/01/08/blender/

 

Interview about "Blender" with Subtropics

http://subtropics.english.ufl.edu/index.php/2016/12/27/heather-wells-peterson/

 

"What Can Art Do After Trump?" Lit Hub, November 2016

http://lithub.com/what-can-art-do-after-trump/

 

"The Original Fish Sauce," Lucky Peach, October 2016

http://luckypeach.com/history-of-roman-garum-fish-sauce/

 

"In Defense of Bad Best Friends," Lit Hub, October 2016

http://lithub.com/in-defense-of-bad-best-friends/

 

"Still Born," Bellevue Literary Review, Fall Issue 2016

http://blr.med.nyu.edu/content/current

 

"Gorman, CA," American Short Fiction, 2016

http://americanshortfiction.org/2016/08/01/gorman-ca/

Interview about "Gorman, CA" for American Short Fiction, 2016

http://americanshortfiction.org/2016/08/16/web-exclusive-interview-heather-wells-peterson/

 

"Patterns of Wear," Nat. Brut, 2016

http://www.natbrut.com/heather-wells-peterson.html

 

"The History of Revolving Restaurants," Lucky Peach, 2016

http://luckypeach.com/history-revolving-restaurants/

Interview about "Revolving Restaurants" with Bill Radke of The Record for KUOW Seattle, 2016

http://kuow.org/post/roman-empire-space-needle-history-revolving-restaurants

 

"Room Service," Burrow Press Review, 2016

http://burrowpress.com/room-service-heather-wells-peterson/

Nominated for Best of the Net: http://burrowpress.com/2016-best-of-the-net-nominees/

 

Review of My First Bikini, a translation of Elena Medel by Lizzie Davis in The Miami Rail, Spring 2016

http://miamirail.org/reviews/my-first-bikini/

 

Guest Editor interview for SmokeLong Quarterly, 2015

http://www.smokelong.com/hwpeterson/

 

"Three short-shorts," The Collagist, 2015

http://thecollagist.com/the-collagist/2015/5/29/three-short-shorts.html

Interview with The Collagist

http://thecollagist.com/collagist-blog/2015/7/10/the-brittle-desperate-suffocating-love-an-interview-with-hea.html

"A Ghost," one of the three short-shorts, was on the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions Longlist for 2016

 

"Pepper" and "Signals," Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (Catch and Release), 2014

 

"Last Sight of Land," SmokeLong Quarterly, 2011

http://www.smokelong.com/last-sight-of-land/

http://www.smokelong.com/smoking-with-heather-peterson/