Heather Frese

Heather Frese’s debut novel, The Baddest Girl on the Planet, won the Lee Smith Novel Prize. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Review, Front Porch, Switchback, and The Southeast Review, among others, receiving notable mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Essays. She lives and writes in Raleigh, NC.