Heather Scott Partington is a writer, teacher, and book critic. She is a recipient of the Emerging Critic Fellowship from the National Book Critics Circle. Her writing appears at The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas Weekly, and Electric Literature. Heather teaches high school English and lives in Elk Grove, California, with her husband and two kids.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Marching for Our Lives: An Interview with Dave Cullen
Dave Cullen discusses his new book on the Parkland school shootings and the movement against gun violence that emerged from it....
“Locked Out of Time”: A Conversation with Deanne Stillman
Deanne Stillman talks about the lives of Western icons we thought we knew....
Life Without Coffee Would Probably Suck: An Interview with Elizabeth Crane
Heather Scott Partington interviews Elizabeth Crane about her latest collection of stories, “Turf.”...
A Safe Place
Heather Scott Partington on Yiyun Li's "Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You in Your Life."...
California, Coming Home: On “Valley Fever” and “Life #6”
"Life #6" and "Valley Fever," both by writers from California, have recently tapped into the long American tradition of writing about the West Coast....
Fog Chaser
On fog, memory, San Francisco, and Kyle Boelte's memoir....
An Accidental Reckoning
Heather Scott Partington on Krista Bremer's memoir and the self-reckoning of marriage....
True Believers
Heather Scott Partington goes looking for God with memoirists Sara Miles and Megan Hustad....
