Heather Sweeney is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, HuffPost, MER – Mom Egg Review, Five Minute Lit, Brevity Nonfiction Blog, and elsewhere. She was the winner of the 2022 Writer Advice Flash Memoir contest and a finalist in the WOW! WomenOnWriting Q4 2023 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest. She lives in Virginia, where she’s working on a memoir. You can find her on X at @WriterSweeney.