Eva Heisler is a poet and art historian.
She has published two books of poetry, Reading Emily Dickinson in Icelandic (Kore Press, 2013) and Drawing Water (Noctuary Press, 2013).
Honors include The Nation’s ”Discovery” Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Emily Dickinson Award, and recent fellowships at Millay Arts and MacDowell. Her poems have been widely published in journals such as BOMB, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Poetry Northwest. She was co-winner of the Poetry International 2021 Prize.
A Fulbright grant brought Heisler to Iceland in 1997 where she lived for nine years, researching Icelandic art with a focus on conceptual practices. Her essays on Icelandic contemporary art have been widely published in academic journals, art magazines, and museum catalogs.
Art historical publications include the catalog essay for Katrin Sigurdardottir: Foundation, Iceland’s Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale; a chapter on the performance practices of Ragnar Kjartansson in Bastard or Playmate? Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and the Contemporary Performing Arts (University of Amsterdam Press, 2012); and an art historical examination of Icelandic conceptualism for the five-volume History of Icelandic Art, published by the National Gallery of Iceland in 2011.
Heisler served as the arts editor of Asymptote, a journal of world literature in translation, from 2014-2022.
Contact Heisler at evaheisler1 [at] gmail [dot] com.