biography
Heidi Durrow is a graduate of Stanford, Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and Yale Law School. She is the recipient of a Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Writers, a Jentel Foundation Residency, and won top honors in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and the Chapter One Fiction Contest. She has received grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the American Scandinavian Foundation, the Roth Endowment and the American Antiquarian Society. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Heidi has worked as a corporate litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and as a consultant to the National Football League and National Basketball Association. Her writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, Smokelong Quarterly, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Essence magazine, and Newsday.
"I think I am getting better at covering up the middle parts . . . When something starts to feel like hurt, I put it in this imaginary bottle inside me. It's blue glass with a cork stopper. My stomach tightens and my eyeballs get hot. I put all of that inside the bottle. If I go through my thoughts quickly, no one notices my blue bottle trick. The blue bottle stays a secret." --from Light-skinned-ed Girl.
