  We analyze plasma heating in weakly collisional kinetic Alfv\'en wave (KAW)
turbulence using high resolution gyrokinetic simulations spanning the range of
scales between the ion and the electron gyroradii. Real space structures that
have a higher than average heating rate are shown not to be confined to current
sheets. This novel result is at odds with previous studies, which use the
electromagnetic work in the local electron fluid frame, i.e. $\mathbf{J}
\!\cdot\! (\mathbf{E} + \mathbf{v}_e\times\mathbf{B})$, as a proxy for
turbulent dissipation to argue that heating follows the intermittent spatial
structure of the electric current. Furthermore, we show that electrons are
dominated by parallel heating while the ions prefer the perpendicular heating
route. We comment on the implications of the results presented here.
