Her third novel The Lonely Hearts Hotel, was published in 2017 and won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Her short story collection, Daydreams of Angels, was published in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It was also nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Encore Award. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She published her second novel The Girl Who Was Saturday Night in 2014. O'Neill published her debut novel Lullabies for Little Criminals in 2006 and it immediately became a bestseller. She has one daughter, Arizona, whom she raised as a single parent.
She was educated at Dawson College and McGill University. After her parents' divorce, she lived in the American South with her mother for several years before returning to Montreal to live with her father. O'Neill spent the first part of her childhood in Montreal. Her father is from Montreal and her mother is of Southern American descent. O'Neill was named by Chatelaine as one of the most influential women in Canada. Lullabies for Little Criminals was a publishing sensation in Canada and went on to become an international bestseller. The book also won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for eight other major awards, including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Governor General's Award and was longlisted for International Dublin Literary Award. The novel was subsequently selected for the 2007 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by singer-songwriter John K. Heather O'Neill (born 1973) is a Canadian novelist, poet, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist, who published her debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, in 2006. Writer, poet, journalist, screenwriter, novelist
Heather O'Neill speaking at a book panel in 2016
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