Heidi Kasa

Heidi Kasa is the author of the poetry collection The Bullet Takes Forever (Mouthfeel Press, 2025), the flash fiction collection The Beginners, winner of the 2023 Digging Press Chapbook Contest (2025), and the fiction chapbook Split (Monday Night Press, 2022). She received the 2024 Plaza Prose Poetry Prize and the 2023 Poetry Super Highway Prize for poems from The Bullet Takes Forever. Her writing has been chosen as a finalist or shortlisted for Best of the Net, Fractured Lit, Black Lawrence Press, Plentitudes Flash Fiction, Plaza Flash Fiction, and ESWA Crossroads contests, and nominated for a Pushcart. Kasa's work has appeared in Barrelhouse, The Brooklyn Rail, The Pinch Journal Online, and elsewhere. 

Kasa has an MFA from California College of the Arts, where she developed a lifelong interest in peer learning. When she's not working as an editor, she's connecting with writers in speculative and poetic communities, reading the most innovative books of her life. Or, she’s making artist books and necklaces in Austin.