Heather King is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire (1977) and Suffolk Law School (1984). Born and raised on the New Hampshire seacoast, she did a 10-year stint in Boston and moved to L.A. in 1990. Following a disastrous 4-year run as a Beverly Hills civil litigation
attorney, King quit her job, converted to Catholicism, and began writing. Today King is a commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered" and a personal essayist whose work has appeared, among other places, in
The Utne Reader, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Sun. She received a "Notable Essay" citation in Best American Essays 2000,
2001, and 2002, and has been or will soon be anthologized in Best Spiritual Writing 2002, Best Spiritual Writing 2005 and Son of Man:The Best Writing about Jesus (Avalon 2002). She has received fellowships from the Djerassi Foundation, the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and is a communicant at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Koreatown, L.A.