Education
Heim is a 1994 graduate of Vassar College with a Bachelor of Arts in French, and a 1996 graduate of Hunter College with an additional Bachelor of Arts in English and Theater. In 2001, Heim received a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania law school and was an editor of the Law Review.
Heim has worked as a clerk for Jeffrey R. Howard of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a litigation associate for the law firms Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Mintz Levin.
Heim is now a novelist, and is currently represented by Jessica Faust at BookEnds Literary Agency.