Heather Thomas received her M.A. in poetry in 1987. Her most recent book of poems, Blue Ruby, was published by Foothills Publishing in 2008. Other books include Practicing Amnesia from Singing Horse Press 2000 and Resurrection Papers from Chax Books in 2003. Under the signature H.T. she published her first two books in 1993 and 1995. She has a Ph.D. from Temple University with a thesis on long poems by women and is an Associate Professor of Writing and Literature at Kutztown University. She has won several awards and grants, among them a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant and the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry.

Alice Notley on Thomas' latest book: Heather Thomas’s Blue Ruby is a beauty, composed by a fearlessly compassionate intelligence:  “everything exists because/ something else does.”  Primarily, it’s poems in flexible, driving, sensuous two- and three- line stanzas (also a new kind of urgent pantoum).  “I write with my eyes.”  But Thomas joins a  growing band who can’t help but unite the personal and political.  She demonstrates that the “pearl-of-great-price” is anyone, anywhere, self or other one.The poems hurt but have a carved, litup surface, red and blue and many other colors.