Heather Wheat is a mother, wife, daughter, etc.; writer, teacher, book-lover, reader, editor, and blogger. Her poetry has appeared in Long Exposure Magazine, and her work and essays have been published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the blog of author Deanna Raybourn, in Richmond Magazine, and on The Washington Post’s education blog. She drinks massive amounts of coffee in order to function, and blogs about books—and sometimes about teaching and life—at wanderingbarkbooks.com. She also tweets a fair amount at @hwheaties.