About Heather

About Heather

Heather
Heather Byer is a freelance writer and editor in New York City, as well as a copyeditor at a management consulting firm. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Shape MagazineThe Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, Worth, the literary anthology Before and After: Stories From New York, and other publications.

She has taught fiction and poetry writing at Johns Hopkins University and English composition at Towson University, both in Baltimore. Heather also spent nine years working in the publishing, film, and online media industries in New York City in a variety of editorial and executive positions. She was the executive editor of Contentville, an e-commerce company founded by media entrepreneur and journalist Steven Brill (Brill's Content, Court TV, The American Lawyer). Prior to that she was Vice President of Literary Acquisitions for Kopelson Entertainment, a feature film production company whose credits include The Fugitive, Seven, Platoon, Falling Down, The Devil's Advocate, and other films. Before Kopelson, she worked at Franklin & Siegal Associates, a literary scouting agency, where she sought out and evaluated literary material for Interscope, Eddie Murphy Productions, Wildwood Enterprises, and CBS Entertainment. Prior to that she worked for Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

Heather received an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, she now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Sweet is her first book.

She has been playing pool since 1999. She also loves to salsa dance, but this will not be the subject of her next book.