Kathleen Heil

Kathleen Heil is an artist working with languages of the body and written word. Her poetry, translations, and prose appear in The New Yorker, The Common, The Threepenny Review, and many other journals. Originally from New Orleans, Heil studied Dance, Art History, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University and the University of Edinburgh, Italian at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy, and holds a master’s degree in Creación Literaria from the Escuela Contemporánea de Humanidades in Madrid as well as an MFA in Creative Writing & Translation from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, where she also taught writing and dance. As a dancer / choreographer, Heil has collaborated with various artists in the U.S. and Europe and performed her own work in New York (Movement Research), Helsinki (museum of impossible forms), New Orleans (Contemporary Arts Center), and elsewhere. A recipient of grants and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Art Omi, and the Federal Association of Dance in Germany, among others, she lives and works in Berlin. She is the translator of Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s Letters to Annie and Oskar Müller-Widmann (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2022) and The Loveliest Vowel Empties, Meret Oppenheim’s collected poems (World Poetry, 2023).