Heather Christle

Heather Christle is the author of WHAT IS AMAZING (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), THE DIFFICULT FARM (Octopus Books, 2009), and THE TREES THE TREES (Octopus Books, 2011), which won the 2012 Believer Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in publications including Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The New Yorker, and The Best American Poetry. From 2009-2011 Christle was Poetry Writing Fellow at Emory University. She is the Web Editor for jubilat and frequently a writer in residence at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute.

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Fivehundred places is a press established by Jason Dodge in an attempt to bring new readers to some of the poets that have been so important to his thinking and working over the past decades.

With a single printing of 500 copies, each book will find itself in one of 500 places.

Each Fivehundred places book also features a Dead Scissor by Paul Elliman on its cover.