BIOGRAPHY

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  • Poet published in numerous journals
    "A Canadian national treasure."-Kurt Heintz, e-poets
  • Author of the forthcoming Window Seat and Sideways, Anvil Press
    "Brawny and uncompromising." "Supple and unusual." -Lyle Neff
  • Media Artist: videopoems Dying for the Pleasure, 2003
    "Suitably hair-raising."-The Westender
    Purple Lipstick, 2006 "Voice, music and imagery fuse together perfectly,
    creating a kind of hypnosis."-George Aguilar, Cine-Poem Festival
  • Musician, Singer, Recording Artist: audio CDs, Princess Nut, 2008
    “AURAL Heather is the new weather!”-Nik Beat-Howl on CIUT Radio 89.5 FM Toronto, and Surfing Season, 2004 / "Beautiful. A credit to the genre."-Ian Ferrier, Wired on Words / "Great job! An auspicious disk. One of the best albums of its kind."-Kurt Heintz, e-poets / "Important work."-Poesybeat
  • Accomplished Performer:"A unique and sublime fusion of new song and spoken word."-ZULA Presents  Haley fronted The .45s with Randy Rampage of DOA, and HHZ, (Heather Haley & the Zellots) praised by music critic Craig Lee as one of the city's "Ten Great Bands."
  • Editor, Publisher: LA Weekly, Rattler, Edgewise Café (one of Canada's first poetry e-zines)
  • Curator and host of SEE THE VOICE : Visible Verse @ Pacific Cinémathèque North America's sustaining venue for the presentation of new and artistically significant poetry video and film
  • Speaker, Panelist: Canada Council Spoken & Electronic Word, Illume: Alchemy of Text and Image at the Gene Siskal Film Centre/Chicago Art Institute, Book Television, Shakespeare & Sons, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Mentor/Workshop Facilitator: Re:Frame/Video @ the Crossroads, Canadian Authors Association conference at UBC, Red Schoolhouse Poetry Primer, Crescent Park Elementary School, Bowen Island Learning Centre
  • Arts Administrator: Architect of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre (endorsed Telepoetics© site) Vancouver Videopoem Festival and SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse @ Pacific Cinémathèque
  • Affiliations: League of Canadian Poets, Women in Film & Video, BC Federation of Writers, Vancouver Alliance for Arts & Culture, Bowen Island Arts Council