Thomas Heise finished drafting and revising his fourth book, a novel tentatively titled The Beautiful Ones in residnece in 2017. The novel is about insomnia, cities, and dreams and was begun in earnest during his first MacDowell residency in 2015. He is the author of Horror Vacui: Poems (2006), Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (2011), and Moth; or how I came to be with you again (2013), which was nominated for ForeWord’s “Book of the Year.” His work frequently focuses on the unstable relationship between time and memory, and place and desire, in prose and poetry that returns repeatedly to real and imagined losses, centripetally swirling around them out of a need to understand, re-experience, and represent them and the aftereffects they accrue. Thomas has been on faculty at McGill University and Ryerson University, and is currently an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University (Abington) where he teaches creative writing and American literature.
Thomas Heise
Studios
Banks
Thomas Heise worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…