Heather Siegel is a creative nonfiction and fiction writer with an MFA from the New School University.  She has authored two award-winning memoirs and a YA novel, and her essays have been featured in numerous anthologies and publications such as HuffPost Personal, Salon.com, The Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop, and The Flexible Persona.. A former Californian and New Yorker, she currently lives in Southern Florida where she coaches students and writers inbetween taking long, overheated walks with her Golden Retriever through the Everglades. 

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Awards and Mentions:

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• Book Excellence Award, 2023, Finalist

• Readers' Favorite Book Award 2020, Gold Medal in Women's Nonfiction

• Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2020, Women's Issues, Winner

• Goose Wickes Prize in Prose, 2019, Winner 

• Kore Press, 2018 Memoir Award, Semifinalist 

• Leapfrog Press 2017 Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention

• Foreword Reviews 2016 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award, Finalist

• East Texas Writer's Guild 2015 First Chapter Award, Winner

• Dan’s Paper 2014 Literary Award for Nonfiction, Judges Favorite

• Doris Bakwin 2012 First Book Award, Finalist

• Kore Press 2012 Prose Award, Finalist

• San Francisco 2011 Writer's Conference Indie Publishing, Finalist

• PNWA 2010 Literary Award in Non-Fiction, Finalist