Stephanie Heit

Stephanie Heit (she/her) is a poet, dancer, and teacher of somatic writing and contemplative movement practices. She is a Zoeglossia Fellow, bipolar, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her hybrid memoir poem, Psych Murders (Wayne State University Press, 2022), invites the reader inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care. Her poetry collection, The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System, 2017) explores the seams of language, movement, and mental health difference. Every Horizon Turns Liquid is her current ecopoetry project documenting through somatic engagement the effects of Lake Michigan’s changing water levels. Her work most recently appeared in Sonora Review, Ecotone, Anomaly, About Place, Bombay Gin, Clade Song, Lime Hawk, Dunes Review, Typo, and Disability Studies Quarterly. She lives on Three Fires Confederacy territory in Ypsilanti, Michigan where she codirects Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space, with her wife and collaborator, Petra Kuppers. https://stephanie-heit.com