Heather Knox

Author of DOWRY MEAT (Words Dance Publishing). Poetry MFA (Iowa Writers' Workshop). Editor, teaching artist, #binders. Blessing hearts since 1984.

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

Black thumb … or ADHD? 🤔🌱🥀

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

If you got a message from me, please ignore it & don’t click any links. I believe I’ve secured things.

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

I appreciate that whoever hacked my Twitter only changed my profile pic & posted crypto nonsense but didn’t change my password & lock me out. 🙃

[Areej Quraishi @areejmaysarah]

OVERJOYED to have won @SycamoreReview's Wasbash Prize in Fiction! First contest win, hopefully of more. Warm thanks to judge Dur E Aziz Amna, and heartiest congrats to other winners & runners-up, @almostmidwest, @PurviPoets, @salvysnr and the finalists.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

It turns out women enjoy having human rights, and we vote.

[Chestnut Review @ChestnutReview]

It is the first of November!

Submit to us today and get a response before the start of next month. We respond within 30 days and pay $120. Rare, we know.

THIS. IS. NOT. A. DRILL. 🌰

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

Maybe give us back #RoeVsWade 🤷🏻‍♀️

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

I've seen hundreds of tweets about telling women to stop having sex if they don't want to get pregnant but I've seen zero calls for men to become celibate. It will never cease to amaze me how little men are blamed for getting someone pregnant. This is about control and patriarchy

[Dives of Wisconsin @DivesOfWI]

VOTE HERE! Quote tweets = 3 votes!

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

(2/2) This is work they could easily collect from a pool of so-called candidates and use without hiring anyone.

Employers, don’t do this. Please.

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

(1/2) Was just asked to complete about a half-day’s worth of work for a potential employer before interviewing. Unpaid. Called it an editing test.

This work includes writing two complete articles and putting together 15 pitches for others based on current news and trends.

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

@TeddyFeed The verdict? It’s no one’s goddamn business but Harry’s and Meghan’s 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

He is a murderer.

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

[Starbucks @Starbucks]

did someone spill coffee on the keyboard or

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

@IvaHasWords Was it offered to me?

… my standards are rock-bottom & it’s seriously depressing.

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

@DollyParton @LilNasX His cover is so haunting. 💜

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

@DollyParton @LilNasX Who knew that 2020/2021 would be the year I become a fan of Dolly Parton? Such a badass woman 💜

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

I don’t think I’m me anymore & I honestly couldn’t tell you what I’ve become.

[Heather Knox @almostmidwest]

Anyone else wonder how they still have skin when they grew up in the era of St. Ives apricot walnut scrub, Noxzema cream, and Sea Breeze astringent?