Heather Price-Wright

Bio

Heather Price-Wright is a writer and editor who lives and works in Brooklyn. She graduated with a degree in creative writing and English from the University of Arizona in 2011. Her creative and critical work has appeared in DIAGRAM, ARDOR Literary Magazine and Qualia Literary and Art Journal. She is a huge sitcom nerd and likes to write about gender, feminism, television and literature.
MTV VMAs 2013: We Are Not In Biggie's Brooklyn Anymore
By Heather Price-Wright
In the middle of my neighborhood – Fort Greene, in Brooklyn – is a massive, wall-sized mural of Biggie Smalls. The mural features his signature mean-mugging pout, and the phrase “Comandante Biggie” in large capital letters underneath.  It is also…
8 Great Short Stories to Read During Your Morning Commute
By Heather Price-Wright
May is Short Story Month, another sign that the genre is coming (or perhaps returning) to major prominence in the United States. With collections like George Saunders’ Tenth of December making it onto the New York Times’ bestseller list and…
5 Things No One Tells You About Life After College
By Heather Price-Wright
Congratulations, graduate! You’ve accomplished something great. Although job prospects might be grim and perhaps you’re buried under a mountain of student debt, you can still be proud of having gotten through several grueling years of higher…
'The Office' Series Finale: Show That Started Out Awkward Developed a Big Heart
By Heather Price-Wright
This article contains some minor spoilers. After nine seasons, NBC’s The Office ended last night — and boy, did it end on a sweet note. The show, which started out so prickly, so awkward, and so uncomfortable in its humor, proved in its final…
5 Wildly Offensive Products That Never Should Have Been Made
By Heather Price-Wright
Way too often, retailers come up with products that have us all scratching our heads, thinking, “Who came up with this, and more importantly, who gave it the green light?” From basically everything Urban Outfitters has ever sold to Abercrombie’s…
The Bizarre Sleep Habits Of 8 Highly Successful People
By Heather Price-Wright
Most sleep experts and researchers agree that the average adult needs about six to eight hours of sleep a night, but according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control, of people who work more than 40 hours a week — which includes, let’s face…
Ben and Leslie 'Parks and Rec': TV's Perfect Couple is Rather Dull
By Heather Price-Wright
Thursday night’s season 5 finale of Parks and Recreation went out with more of a whimper than a bang. It’s no secret that the show’s fate is uncertain – a sixth season is not yet a sure thing – and so the finale was careful to build in a variety of…
5 Things Not to Say to a Depressed Person
By Heather Price-Wright
Last week, Hyundai had to yank and apologize for a commercial depicting a man attempting suicide in his garage, but failing because his new car was zero-emissions. The ad sparked serious backlash, in large part due to the fact that depictions of…
5 Things You’re Bound to Learn in Your 20s
By Heather Price-Wright
Your 20s are a time to explore the kind of real, functioning adult you want to be, make some mistakes (OK, a lot of mistakes), and, in this day and age, move back in with your parents more often than not. They're also a decade in which you're bound…
Torrington Rape Case: This is Why We Need Statutory Rape Laws
By Heather Price-Wright
In February, in the town of Torrington, Connecticut, two 18-year-old high school football players, Edgar Gonzalez and Joan Toribio, were arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Specifically, the charges against the two boys…
5 Legendary Writers Share Their Writing Advice
By Heather Price-Wright
Writers are always looking for the magical formula that will make them wildly prolific and preternaturally talented at the same time. While that’s impossible – the only way to get better at writing is to write... a lot – there are plenty of great…
Has 'Girls' Become Too Dark and Depressing For Viewers?
By Heather Price-Wright
While the second season of HBO’s Peabody-award-winning show Girls wrapped up with some fairly surprising rom-com moments, the show overall took a dark and stormy left turn after its fairly lighthearted, if uncomfortable, first go-around. It’s worth…
Girls Season 2 Finale: Do the Unlovable Deserve to Be Loved?
By Heather Price-Wright
Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers. Whether you love HBO’s series Girls or hate it, you’re probably sick of the glut of media attention that infinitesimally examines each and every moment of each and every episode, each and every week. I…
'New Girl' Gets Away With Racism — And We Can't Let That Slide in 2013
By Heather Price-Wright
New Girl is, in many ways, one of the freshest, funniest sitcoms on TV right now — it has even been called the millennial generation’s Friends. And while that comparison is fairly apt, one big difference between the two shows is that New Girl…
Please God, No More Mr. "Nice Guy"
By Heather Price-Wright
As the now-defunct but, in its heyday, hilarious Tumblr “Nice Guys of OKCupid” taught us, men who assume the moniker of the Nice Guy are often not that — not at all. In fact, a Nice Guy (as opposed to just a lowercase nice guy, as in a member of the…