Heidi Seaborn

Heidi Seaborn is a Seattle-based poet, essayist and editor. As a teen, Heidi wrote and published poetry then lost the plot for 40 years, returning to writing in 2016. She hasn’t looked up since. Her third collection of poetry, tic tic tic, was published September 16, 2025 by Cornerstone Press. Her second poetry collection, the award-winning An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe came out in 2021 and was re-released in 2022 as Marilyn: Essays and Poems from PANK. Heidi’s debut book of poems, Give a Girl Chaos, from C&R Press was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Additionally, she’s authored three chapbooks, the prize-winning Bite Marks, Once a Diva and Finding My Way Home. She’s won or been recognized for numerous awards including winning the esteemed the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize in Poetry from The Missouri Review. Her poems, essays and literary criticism have appeared in AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Brevity, Copper Nickel, Crab Creek Review, Electric Lit, The Financial Times of London, Lit Hub, Image, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, Terrain.org, The Slowdown and elsewhere. She is currently writing a hybrid work of autofiction, Upstart, based on her twenties spent during the halcyon early days of Silicon Valley. Heidi serves as the Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds degrees from Stanford and NYU.