Heather O’Neill

Heather O’Neill is a Canadian novelist, poet, and screenwriter. She was born in Montreal, where she attended McGill University. She also spent some of her childhood in the Southern United States. She later returned to Montreal, where she has lived ever since. Heather has won several awards for her work, and been short and longlisted for many more. Among her awards include the Canada Reads competition, the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Writers’ Trust Fellowship 2019, and more.