Heather Taylor Johnson moved to Adelaide from America in 1999 with the intent of getting a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. Along with a husband and two children, she got her Masters degree and continued on to receive her PhD.

Currently she is a poetry editor of Wet Ink, a book reviewer for Cordite Poetry Review and a member of PEN International.

She is widely published in Australian journals and anthologies in both poetry and fiction and occasionally is published overseas. Her book Exit Wounds was published by Picaro Press in 2007. She is active in the spoken word scene in Adelaide and tutors in Media at the University of Adelaide.