Colin Heasley was born and raised in rural upstate New York. His short fiction has appeared in Columbia Journal and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, where he was a runner-up for the 2025 Stephen Dixon Award in Short Fiction.

His narrative work blends influences from film, drama (MFA, New York University) and a background in STEM policy (BS, Duke University) with humorous first-person narration. He is an alum of Bread Loaf and Tin House, where he workshopped portions of his completed story collection. He is currently at work on a novel.

Colin began writing for the internet as an Editorial Fellow at BuzzFeed, during the heyday of the millennial content farm. His satire has since appeared online in Reductress, Electric Literature, The Offing, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and The New Yorker, among many others.

Throughout his twenties, he honed his craft while working a variety of temp jobs and internships: at the US Department of State, ad agency R/GA, queer cinema epicenter Killer Films, kitchen electrics company Dash, and a J. Crew store in a mall. He currently works at the digital advertising agency Razorfish.

Colin lives in Los Angeles with his partner, the GRAMMY-nominated jazz singer and composer Michael Mayo.