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Nancy Heiss
@nancyheiss.bsky.social
Language and Literacy Education PhD student at UGA, studying Literacies and Children's Literature. Linguist. Poet. Homeschooling mom to six.

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Story time and book making with the Mayor’s Summer Reading Club at The Wren’s Nest.
August 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
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August 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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No Kings in Atlanta
June 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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with 6/8 of the family out with some sort of not-COVID summer sniffles, I once again turn to this wonderful study showing viral prevalence by household size and the fact that families with 6 kids have a viral infection present 87% of the year (or 10.5 months!) academic.oup.com/cid/article/...
May 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Our poster on creative ethnography and poetic exploration in research was awarded first place in Language and Literacy Education at UGA’s MFECOE Research Conference!
April 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I found @patzmiller.bsky.social's "Sophie's Squash" the other day and had to bring it home to read to my pumpkin-loving toddler who'd kept a pumpkin in her bed from October until January when I finally convinced her to drop it in the garden (in exchange for a knit pumpkin). She loved the story!
April 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reading @reemfaruqi.bsky.social’s “Call Me Adnan” with the kids. We’re enjoying it—and playing ping pong—but I am already dreading where the foreshadowing is leading my mind…
April 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Party! At the blood moon
March 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The latest issue of Irreantum (21.4) came out today.

My poem 🫐 "In which my toddler eats forbidden fruit" 🫐 is the first piece. Enjoy!

And Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/_21-4-start/
Irreantum 21.4 - Irreantum
irreantum.associationmormonletters.org
November 28, 2024 at 3:02 AM
I’m excited to be on the long list for this year’s Holiday Lit Blitz! www.mormonlitlab.org/post/the-hol...
The Holiday Lit Blitz: The Longlist
Thank you to everyone who submitted to our specialty contest, the Holiday Lit Blitz! The pieces were judged blindly, without any identifying author information. We loved so many of the short stories, ...
www.mormonlitlab.org
November 12, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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Heyyy my 9-yo daughter won the Georgia Writers Museum's 2024 Spooky Story Contest with "The Mystery of Doll's Head Trail"! www.georgiawritersmuseum.org/the-mystery-...

Inspired by Atlanta's own weird Doll's Head Trail
November 2, 2024 at 1:01 PM
You see the way I read my article on phenomenology? Very demure, very studious...until a paragraph citing Heidegger uses the words thoughtful, mindful, and heedful in rapid succession. Then I get a little cutesy...but still demure.
September 3, 2024 at 3:29 AM
In case you want to read something more (or something different), I also had two sonnets published in the April 2024 issue of Poetry Porch: "Lactogenesis: On the first day" and "Baby-led weaning at 18 months" www.poetryporch.com/scroll.html
Poetry Porch: sonnet scroll
www.poetryporch.com
May 3, 2024 at 8:48 PM
My piece—"Prayer Poems: A Trilogy"—is now available to read in the latest issue of Segullah (accompanied by a lovely crochet mural by Mette Ivie)!

segullah.org/prayer-poems...
Prayer Poems: A Trilogy (1st Place Poetry) - Segullah
I. Learning to pray five times a day Five times a day, the call to prayer blasted throughthe Cairene apartment we rented without realizingits proximity to Thakanat el-Maadimosque. That first night whe...
segullah.org
May 3, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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In the past few days, @nancyheiss.bsky.social officially graduated with her MA in education (literacies and children's literature) from UGA, and had her first first-authored journal article go live (digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol15/i...), *and* is about to submit her PhD application (!)
December 20, 2023 at 8:35 PM