Heather Christle

About the Author

Heather Christle is the author of The Crying Book (Catapult), a New York Times Editor’s Choice, Indie Next selection, and national bestseller that was translated into eight languages, awarded the Georgia Book Award for memoir, and adapted for radio by the BBC. An Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and a 2026 Guggenheim fellow, Christle is also the author of five poetry collections including The Trees The Trees, which won the Believer Book Award, and Paper Crown. Her writing has been published in The Believer, Elle, Granta, London Review of Books, and The New Yorker, and in 2021 she was a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow in nonfiction.