Education

2012 DePauw University, B.A.
2016 George Mason University, M.F.A.

Courses Taught

Creative Nonfiction
Academic Writing: Historical Nonfiction

Career Specialties

Rajpreet Heir specializes in contemporary memoir, the essay, journalism, professional writing, and humor writing. She often writes about being an Indian from Indiana. 

Professional and Community Activities

Rajpreet Heir has published in both literary and commercial venues including The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Independent, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Brevity, The Best of Brevity anthology (Rose Metal Press), A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing (Indiana University Press), and Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion (Aunt Lute Books). Her Bend It Like Beckham essay in The Atlantic caught the attention of On Being Studios and they featured her on their "This Movie Changed Me" podcast. Many of these essays are part of a book-in-progress entitled Indian in Indiana.

She has reviewed memoirs by Asian American Pacific Islander authors for The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Bustle, and Harvard Review. 

Honors and Awards

Los Angeles Review of Books essay featured in Lit Hub’s “Best of the Literary Internet” roundup (2024)
Rumpus essay featured in Memoir Monday roundup (2022)
Brevity essay featured in Creative Nonfiction’s Sunday Short Reads (2019)