HEATHER TOSTESON, a writer and visual artist, has received a Nation/Discovery prize for her poetry and fellowships for poetry, fiction, and photography from MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA and Hambidge Center. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (UNC-Greensboro), a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing (Ohio University), and a Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction (San Francisco Theological Seminary). She has worked as a science writer and editor, executive editor of two public health journals at Harvard Medical School, and in health communications at the Centers for Disease Control, with a focus on communication across professional disciplines, racism, social trust, and how belief systems develop and change. Her most recent poetry collection is Source Notes: Seventh Decade. Her most recent non-fiction publication is Sharing the Burden of Repair: Reentry After Mass Incarceration. Co-authored with Charles Brockett, it is the result of an extensive six-year listening project. Her most recent fiction is the novel The Philosophical Transactions of Maria van Leeuwenhoek, Antoni's Dochter (1668-1696). She is also the author of the novel Visible Signs, the short story collections Germs of Truth and Hearts as Big as Fists, poetry collections Breathing in Portuguese, Living in English and The Sanctity of the Moment: Poems from Four Decades, and the non-fiction book God Speaks My Language, Can You?, which focuses on how we can listen with imagination to the faith journeys of our neighbors whatever their faith tradition.
Heather Tosteson
Studios
Nef
Heather Tosteson worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…