Heather Tosteson is the author of seven books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, most recently the novel The Philosophical Transactions of Maria van Leeuwenhoek, Antoni's Dochter (1668-1696) and the poetry collection Source Notes: Seventh Decade. She is co-founder of Universal Table and Wising Up Press and co-editor of the Wising Up Anthologies.She and Charles Brockett co-authored Sharing the Burden of Repair: Reentry After Mass Incarceration, an extensive six-year Wising Up Listening Project. She has co-edited all twenty-two Wising Up Anthologies.