Heather Camlot
Heather is an award-winning children’s author, journalist, editor and translator. Her two middle-grade novels, Clutch and The Other Side, received Skipping Stones Honor Awards and nominations for Forest of Reading, among other honors. Clutch was also named a 2017 Best Book from Kirkus Reviews and a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
Heather is also an accomplished nonfiction writer. She is the author of the award-winning middle-grade What If Soldiers Fought with Pillows? True Stories of Imagination and Determination, I Can’t Do What? Strange Laws and Rules from Around the World, Secret Schools: True Stories of the Determination to Learn, and The Prisoner and the Writer, a Globe and Mail Top 10 Kids’ Book of 2022. Her next nonfiction book, Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science is Making Us Super, will be released spring 2023. Born and raised in Montreal, she now lives in Toronto with her husband, teenagers, and rescue dog.