Heather was born in upstate New York and has since moved around quite a bit. In 2012, she received her BFA from East Tennessee State University and later worked as a Resident Artist at Odyssey Clayworks in Asheville, NC. She studied at SACI in Florence Italy.  From 2018 to 2021, she traveled in a little camper with a mobile pottery studio around the western United States. Currently, she resides in beautiful Arizona with her two dogs, where she is building a home made from straw and clay.