Heather Camlot is an award-winning children’s author, journalist, editor and translator. She has written five nonfiction books and two novels for middle-grade readers, including Clutch, which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017. Her most recent nonfiction book, The Prisoner and the Writer, won the 2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for children and youth and was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, a 2023 Notable Book for a Global Society and a Globe and Mail Top 10 Kids Book for 2022. Her latest is Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super.  Originally from Montreal, she lives in Toronto with her husband, two teenagers and rescue dog.