Kythe Heller

Kythe Heller is a poet, writer, interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and teaching fellow at Harvard University, where she is completing a dissertation in Comparative Religion with a second field in Arts, Film and Visual Studies/Critical Media Practice. She is the author of the poetry collection Firebird, which was nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award, and several critical studies on medieval and contemporary mysticism, poetics, and spirituality, published by Cambridge University Press, Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics, and others. Her poetry and popular writing has appeared widely, in American Poetry Review, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The MacDowell Colony, The Mellon Foundation, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Harvard University. She is the founder and director of Vision Lab, an interdisciplinary art and research collective in the future of the human spirit, based at Harvard Divinity School, the editor of Forecast Journal, and an editor at Stenen Press.