Heather Jarvis

Heather Jarvis was awarded the Fielding Dawson Prize in Memoir in the 2019 Prison Writing Contest for “Poker Face” and the 2nd Place prize in Nonfiction in the 2021 Prison Writing Contest for “Frozen Pancakes and Bathrooms.”


Articles by Heather Jarvis

Monday September 9

Poker Face

“He would sit me at the table right next to him during his weekly poker games with the boys and teach me all about my poker face. I never had a good one but he did.”