Heather Colley

Heather Colley is a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Oxford. She researches late 19th and early 20th-century jazz and blues aesthetics in transatlantic modernist literature. She completed her Master’s in Modern and Contemporary Literature with Distinction at St Andrews, where she studied lyric and form in the work of mid-twentieth century African American women novelists. She received her Bachelor’s in English Literature/Creative Writing and Sociology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Heather Colley’s writing won The Oxford Review of Books Short Fiction Prize, the Hopwood Award, and inclusion in the Desperate Literature anthology. The Gilded Butterfly Effect is her debut novel. She lives in Oxford, England and New York. TikTok: @phdwithpaige