A former academic researcher, Heather Romero-Kornblum holds a B.A. in Psychology from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Management from UCSD.

Heather was in the middle of her Ph.D. when Long Covid upended her life. She returned to poetry after several near-death experiences due to Long Covid.

Poetry became the vehicle for the unimaginable. She captures the crumbling of her body, her marriage, and her family in the wake of her near-death experiences in I’M NOT OVER YOU – the 2025 Four Feathers Press Chapbook Contest winner. 

She is published in multiple journals and anthologies, including with Women Who Submit in ‘This Makes up the Sky’ and ‘Accolades,’ LA Art News Poet's Place, Feather Press ‘Tender Hearts Club,’ Quiet Lightning’s ‘Sparkle and Blink,' Four Feathers Press monthly anthologies, The Zest of the Lemon, Plague 2020: A world Anthology of Poetry and Art About Covid-19, the upcoming Altadena Poetry Review: Anthology 2026, and on the ZZyZx WriterZ podcast, and has featured at multiple venues, including at the WordParty Poetry and Jazz monthly series, Sacred Grounds – the longest running open mic in San Francisco, Mutiny Radio, Poems under the Dome, Four Feathers Press, Cobalt Poets, and Lyrical Flames. Her poem ‘Alienation’ won a 2025 Print Poetry Award from Four Feathers Press. She also hosts the weekly Poetic Problems critique and brainstorming workshop.