Heather O’Neill is a contributor to This American Life, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. Her novel Lullabies for Little Criminals, an international bestseller, won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the Canada Reads competition in 2007, and was shortlisted for seven prizes, including the Orange Prize for Fiction and Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award, and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her most recent novel, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, also a bestseller, was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the 2015 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Encore Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by several publications. She lives in Montreal.
