A novel and daring, yet, complexly dreamy woman possessing an intuitive crossbreed of romance and nonconformity, Heather Angelika Dooley has been writing anthems of love-and-war as long as she has known the alphabet. Her poetry is naked and identifiable. Each work synchronizes the contusion of a broken heart and, yet, each has a hauntingly kindhearted verve that makes you want to understand such sense of self, or know this fresh and clever writer for yourself.

Heather Angelika is now a freelance artist with a myriad of fortes and faces. After years as a scenic artist, graphic artist, screen-printing artist, dancer, model, and deejay, Heather Angelika now lives in the Old South, with her daughter, philosophizing her memoirs into a story of your life. She is a Stay-at-Home-Mom who, while publishing books and writing, is also a Professional Writing major at an all-woman’s liberal arts college. She is minoring in, none other than, Creative Writing. She has two professional goals for her future beyond being an artist and author: to become a Creative Writing professor and to start her own publishing company. Heather Angelika has tried her multitalented hands at many things. When she desires to learn something new, she goes right for it! She is very ambitious and tries to do her best at everything she sets her mind to. She told us, “My wings have never hung by my side long enough to fit in the pigeonhole. Life’s too short to be so grounded that you don’t soar to new heights everyday.” It is evident that Heather Angelika Dooley does not spend a lot of time daydreaming when she has dreams to be made!

Meanwhile, Heather Angelika is a poet bound to be a clairvoyant for the era and, even still, remains clandestine and modest in hers. She spends most of her time in coffee houses with her journals and laptop that has worn off lettering on the keypad. Heather Angelika's first love affair was with words, without breaking up with words, she began another affair with metaphors. Now her nucleus of symbolisms will become your new adages.

Fans of her poetry had these things to say about her writing:

"A great ebbtide of humble prose did she grace this world with unselfishly."

"Just when your readers think you have reached your plateau, you write something like this book. Mucho Grande Props!"

"Imagine poetry slam at half-speed, slowed down enough for the rest of us to contemplate and quietly hear her side of the story."

"Congrats on another in a long line of impressive work. It's almost like there is no stopping you. If you keep this up, other poets are going to get jealous!"

"I want to use words like: defiant, poignant, confessional, and confrontational."

"You are always doing these clever things in your work, these little secret codes and subliminal messages. Always thought-provoking and yes, certainly witty, I love your 'hep wit', and how you can say what you want to say without giving a damn the consequence. So fiesty. So real. I love you! You're just BRILLIANT."

"It is about being in the moment with love and heartache, and that uneasy feeling when troubled ghosts from the past catch up the present."

"Heather- You always do words beautifully, in a complex way that teaches the reader and yet takes them into a dream. I love your writing, Mermaiden, and I don't know what this literary world would be without you. God, you are brilliant!"

"Words that speak in layers, stitching themselves into emotions."