A native Tennessean, Heather Cadenhead holds a degree in creative writing from Union University. Her poems and essays are published or forthcoming in Ekstasis Magazine, The Rabbit Room, Valley Voices, Vessels of Light, Saint Katherine Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Illuminations, The Clayjar Review, Radix Magazine, and other journals. Previously, she won the New Plains Review Editorial Prize and was nominated for Best of the Net. Her poetry is featured in a forthcoming children's anthology, I've Got a Bad Case of Poetry (Bandersnatch Books, 2025).