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HEATHER CAMLOT is an award-winning author of a dozen books for young readers.
Her middle-grade nonfiction includes 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 fiction writer. Her two middle-grade novels are Clutch and The Other Side.
Fall 2026 welcomed 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 a picture book about the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Heather’s books have been honored 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, and Prix littéraire FETKANN – Maryse Condé.
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.
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