[1] She received her MA and PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, at the Victoria University of Wellington.

[3] Heath's poetry explores ideas of science, motherhood and grief, and she draws inspiration from scientists such as Isaac Newton.

[2] Heath's first published work was the chapbook, Watching the Smoke.

[4] Heath has also been published in the Best New Zealand Poems series (2012)[5] and literary journals, including Turbine,[6] Swamp,[7] 4th Floor,[8] and Snorkel.

[10] The scientific perspective of the poetry in Graft led her poem ‘Making Tea in the Universe’ to win the 2011 inaugural Science Teller Poetry Award.