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Lecturer, Department of Writing Studies

Heidi Naylor has been teaching in the Department of Writing Studies at Boise State University since 2007. She earned both a B.A. in English, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, with a fiction emphasis, from Boise State. In addition to teaching, Naylor is an award-winning writer, and an editor. Her research assesses the curriculum and outcomes for English instruction, including those in creative writing, and for second-language learners, and Honors composition students. In 2014 she received a residency in creative writing at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska.

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About Heidi Naylor

Heidi Naylor has been teaching in the Department of Writing Studies at Boise State University since 2007. She earned both a B.A. in English, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, with a fiction emphasis, from Boise State. In addition to teaching, Naylor is an award-winning writer, and an editor. Her research assesses the curriculum and outcomes for English instruction, including those in creative writing, and for second-language learners, and Honors composition students. In 2014 she received a residency in creative writing at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska.

2007 - Present	Lecturer, Boise State University ‐ Department of Writing Studies
Institution Organization Position Type Position Title Time Period to Options Current Position Affiliate my profile with this Institution

Creative Writing and English Language and Literature

Creative Writing and Literature

2012 - Pushcart Prize Nomination, <em>Revolver</em>, Short Story
2012 - Brookie and D. K. Brown Short Fiction Prize, <em>Name</em>, Sunstone Magazine
2012 - Residency, Artists’ Retreat at Starry Night (Estrella Arts), New Mexico
2019 - Faculty International Development Award, University Studies Abroad Consortium Program, Boise State University

ENGL 101: Intro to College Writing
ENGL 102: Intro to Research Writing
ENGL 112: Honors Research Writing
ENGL 121/122: Academic Writing for Non-Native Speakers
ENGL 202: Intro to Technical Writing
ENGL 206: Fiction Writing
ENGL 210: Intro to Literature
ENGL 268: British Literature
ENGL 278: American Literature
ENGL 306: Intermediate Fiction Writing

E-mail: heidinaylor@boisestate.edu

The Mandelbrot Set (Heidi Naylor) Sunstone Magazine (2016)

Mack and Natalie Have Gotten Too Comfortable in Idaho (Heidi Naylor) Detours (2013)

Name (Heidi Naylor) Sunstone Magazine (2012)

In high school, I worked as a lottery ticket agent at a strip mall newsstand called Tri-State Book and Game. I was sixteen, seventeen, selling lottery tickets I was too young to buy or redeem, ...

A Season of Curing (Heidi Naylor) The Chariton Review (2012)

Language of Desire (Heidi Naylor) The Idaho Review (2011)

On the afternoon school bus, and without thinking about it, Larkin Brousseau ran a finger over the bump and down the crooked bony ridge. Sometimes she wondered if her nose had been broken when she ...

Revolver (Heidi Naylor) New Letters (2011)

Memorial Day, Klink's daughter drives him to a gathering at the state of Idaho veterans' cemetery. The day is bright but chilly, with a motion- and cloud -filled sky and a long row of flags ...

We: Yin and Yang: A Note (Short Story) (Heidi Naylor) Portland Magazine (2011)

He likes cats. I prefer dogs. He was raised on a dairy farm in a wide western valley. I grew up on the south side of Pittsburgh. He is short and I am tall. When ...

Selected Essays and Articles (10)

Includes essays, profiles, and opinion pieces

Postcards from Viterbo (Heidi Naylor) Ecletica (2022)

Piano 2 was centuries old yet rebuilt after World War II. Red hexagonal tiles covered the floor, beneath tall and shuttered windows and coved ceilings. Dario switched fans on to move hot air through the rooms, ...

A Profile of Robin Wall Kimmerer (Heidi Naylor) Literary Mama (2021)

Robin Wall Kimmerer begins her book Gathering Moss with a journey in the Amazon rainforest, during which Indigenous guides helped her see an iguana on the tree branch, a toucan in the leaves. Without the knowledge of ...

When Families Split Red and Blue: We’re Fighting a Heart-to-Heart Battle (Heidi Naylor) The Idaho Statesman (2021)

Siblings disagree in Irene Hunt’s 1964 lovely, timeless novel, “Across Five Aprils.” In the story, Kentuckian Jethro Creighton comes of age during the American Civil War; his reckoning begins at the family dinner table. There, ...

‘A Good Paddling’: It’s Easy to Find Idaho’s Simple Joys from a Paddle Board on the River (Heidi Naylor) The Idaho Statesman (2020)

In a nod to this local-rich and socially distanced summer, I got a stand-up paddle board for my birthday. Today I took it out for the first time, on a wide, slow stretch of Idaho’s ...

Exclusion of Muslims: Unfortunate Echoes in American History, Even for Mormons (Heidi Naylor) Idaho Statesman (2017)

President Trump’s executive order suspending entry of refugees and immigrants from seven majority Muslim nations hits far too close to the heart, even for a multigenerational Christian American.

Embrace 'the Province of Little Children' (Heidi Naylor) Idaho Statesman (2016)

A few months ago, I attended an academic conference in Houston and was curious to hear the following account, from a fellow participant. LIke me, he teaches English courses to undergraduates at a university, though ...

The Muslim Refugee Family: On the Way to Citizenship (Heidi Naylor) Boise @ One Five Zero: Essays and Poems from the City of Trees (2013)

In the spring of 2001, just before the world went post-9/11, my husband approached me about hosting an Afghan refugee family of four. I was hesitant. But my reservations-lice, tuberculosis, the loss of solitude-seem petty ...

What it is to be Mormon (Op-ed essay) (Heidi Naylor) The Washington Post (2011)

Mitt Romney's second campaign for the presidency has once again brought skepticism and fear of Mormonism into the spotlight. Romney has been forced to respond to comments that his religion is a "cult" and has ...

An Endowed Judaic Studies Chair … Where? (Heidi Naylor) Jewish Journal (2010)

When you hear the name Idaho, you might picture fields of potatoes, vistas of jagged mountaintops, high-desert clusters of grazing sheep and — unfortunately — the stain of bigotry. You'd be accurate on three of ...

A Mentor Who Continues to Inspire (Heidi Naylor) Quest: Magazine of the College of Idaho (2010)

Take a look around and you'll notice one, or two. People who don't seem to think life holds much promise, not for them. Perhaps you've felt that way yourself.

Revolver: Stories (Heidi Naylor) Faculty & Staff Authored Books (2018)

Engaging Pedagogies for Student Success in Undergraduate Service Courses: Using Practical Wisdom to Make Good Courses Great (Jill Heney, Debra Purdy and Heidi Naylor) Computers & Writing 2018 (2018)

This panel presents two studies on student participation and engagement: implications from an NSF-funded study of introductory technical and professional communication (TPC) courses as well as findings from a study of an online first-year writing ...

Poetics: Literary Connections for FY Multilingual Writers (Heidi Naylor) Conference on College Composition and Communication (2017)

Poetics: Literary Connections for Multilingual Writers (Heidi Naylor and Dan Lau) Symposium on Second Language Writing: Expertise in Second Language Writing, Arizona State University (2016)

Two university instructors illustrate the benefits of poetry in L2 first-year-writing classrooms. Poetries from within and outside Euro-American traditions invite multiple approaches for student-to-text engagement and encourage genre subversions; expressions of class, achievement, and personal ...

Conceptions and Misconceptions of the Honors Composition Student: A Quantitative-Qualitative Study (Heidi Naylor) Conference on College Composition and Communication (2013)

At our mid-size institute, students are admitted to the honors program on the strength of the following criteria: grades, test scores, and an essay submission. Yet once students are placed in honors composition, little is ...

Culture is Part of the Content: Enhancing Assignments for Multilingual Learners (Heidi Naylor) Every Teacher is an ESL Teacher: Best Practices for the (Increasingly) Multilingual Classroom, Boise State University (2013)

Opening the Chapel Doors: Taking Reader Response from Maxim to Practice (Heidi Naylor) 41st Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association (2006)