Joe Heap (author)

Joe Heap (born 1986) is an English author who resides in London.^[1][2] His poetry has been published in several journals and he was a winner of the 2004 Foyle Young Poet Award.^[3] He was a guest author at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival.^[4]

Life and works

Heap was born in London and grew up in Bradford, West Yorkshire.^[5] He later moved to Scotland where he completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.^[6]

After Heap's first book, The Rules of Seeing (HarperCollins, 2018), released, he was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards's Breakthrough Author; the book won the Romantic Novelists' Association Award for Debut Romantic Novel in 2018.^[7][8] His second novel was When the Music Stops (HarperCollins, 2020).

Bibliography

Novels

• Heap, Joe (2018). The Rules of Seeing. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780008293192.
• Heap, Joe (2020). When the Music Stops. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780008293222.