Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a Canadian author, comics critic, literary critic and journalist. He is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine and a former staff writer at The New Republic. The publications he has written for include The National Post, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Heer was a member of the 2016 jury for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His anthology A Comic Studies Reader, with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award.

Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a Sikh.

Selected works

 * Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004)
 * A Comics Studies Reader (edited with Kent Worcester) (2008)
 * The Superhero Reader (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield) (2013)
 * ''Too Asian: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education (with Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour, eds. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012.
 * In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013)
 * Sweet Lechery (2014)