Writer. Essayist. Memoirist.

Heather Sweeney is a Virginia-based writer whose essays and creative nonfiction work about divorce, life as a military spouse, parenting, relationships and women’s health have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, The TODAY Show, Newsweek, Business Insider, Good Housekeeping, Next Avenue, Healthline, Brevity Nonfiction Blog, MER - Mom Egg Review and elsewhere.

Her debut memoir CAMOUFLAGE: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage is about a woman’s journey from being overshadowed by her husband’s military career to rediscovering her identity as a single mother entering a new stage in life. The memoir explores how, like many military spouses, she camouflaged her identity, conforming to the expected role of the supportive wife who was secondary to her husband’s career as a Navy officer. But after she ended her thirteen-year marriage in her late thirties, she set out on a quest to figure out who she was as a woman without her husband, discovering that the hardships of military life—the forced independence, frequent loneliness, required adaptability, and fierce resilience—had trained her for life after divorce.

CAMOUFLAGE will be published by Post Hill Press in fall 2025.