With an academic specialization in ecopoetics and creative eco-engagement, Heidi has presented her research at national and international conferences. Her poems and critical essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Georgia Review, Ecotone, Eleven Eleven, jubilat, Ploughshares, Women's Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Gurlesque, The Incredible Sestina Anthology, A Literary Field-guide to Southern Appalachia, The Spirit of Black Mountain College, and other venues. With the award-winning poet Amy King, she is editor and founder of Poets for Living Waters, an international digital poetry commemoration responding to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and of Big Energy Poets: When Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change (BlazeVOX 2018), for which she wrote a critical introduction.