Heather Sellers

Welcome to my Amazon author page.

My fifth collection of poems, WOMEN IN TAMPA TALKING ABOUT ALLIGATORS, comes out in June 2026. I'll be giving readings and visiting classrooms and book clubs. I would love to meet with your group. I also teach The Poetry of Mindfulness for community organizations.

AUTHOR BIO

A Florida native, Heather Sellers is the author of five volumes of poetry, including the award-winning collections Field Notes from the Flood Zone (BOA Editions) and The Boys I Borrow (New Issues Press). Her new collection is Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators, poems about daily life in suburban Florida, in all its weird glory.

Sellers' memoir, You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, was an Oprah Book-of-the-Month Club selection and Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review, and her short story collection, Georgia Under Water, was the winner of a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. She has also authored four books on the craft of writing, including Page after Page and The Practice of Creative Writing, and her nonfiction appears in Good Housekeeping, The Sun, Parade, Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, Redbook, The Sun, and Best American Essays. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Florida.