About Heather

HEATHER CAMLOT is an award-winning author of a dozen books for young readers.

Her middle-grade nonfiction include What If Soldiers Fought with Pillows? True Stories of Imagination and Determination, The Prisoner and the Writer, and One Goal: How Soccer Can Help Save the Planet. Heather is also an accomplished writer fiction. Her two middle-grade novels are Clutch and The Other Side.

Fall 2026 will see two new nonfiction books, Have a Bite! How Food Connects Us and Beyond Words: The Meaning and Impact of Signs and Symbols. Two more books are slated for 2027: Champions for Change: How Athletes are Making a Difference and Poster Child: The Story of Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, her first picture book.

Heather’s books have been honoured as a Best Book pick from Kirkus Reviews, a Canadian Jewish Literary Awards winner (juvenile category), Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections, an Outstanding Science Trade Book (NSTA/CBC) and Skipping Stones Honor Awards. They have also been shortlisted for provincial, national, and international awards, including Forest of Reading, CCBC Book Awards, Prix littéraire FETKANN – Maryse Condé.

Before book publishing, she immersed herself in the Canadian children’s literature scene, working at Mabel’s Fables Bookstore and volunteering with the Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP).

A journalist for more than 25 years, she has written, edited and translated for Quill & Quire, Owl and Canadian Children’s Book News, among others. She has a BA in Communication Studies from Concordia University and an MA in Journalism from New York University. Originally from Montreal, Heather lives in Toronto with her family.