BIOGRAPHY Heather Hendrie is a Clinical Counsellor and creative radical who’s spent years fumbling through life and figuring it out as she goes (not unlike the rest of us). She’s travelled the world on a shoestring and a whim, and spent far too many hours lying in bed alone (or on the toilet in the bar) swiping through to the end of the Tinder-verse.
Originally from Guelph, Ontario, Heather has lived in Cusco, Costa Rica, California, Colorado, and the Canadian Rockies before landing in her coastal British Columbia home. She’s got at least 13 jobs under her belt, from golf-course beverage cart sales, to in-flight air safety professional, touring film festival host, international bike tour guide and a starring role as Ms. Frizzell look-alike touring buses through landfills in Calgary, Alberta.
Heather draws from these varied experiences in her work as a clinical counsellor, and with her generous, intimate writing style. Heather reaches out a hand to all the rest of us, as we all simply Bumble our way through it, together, reminding one another that even on the hardest days, we aren't alone.
The awfully hilarious project was conceived by two of Heather’s best friends when they scooped her up to console her after a particularly bad date—to provide the same support to others, in literary form.
The series continues to grow. The first book, awfully hilarious: stories we never tell, became a best-seller the moment it was released and won the Canadian Book Club Awards readers' choice for best anthology in 2023. Launching on International Women's Day, 2024, awfully hilarious: period pieces, tells the truth and attempts to end shame around menstruation and menopause.
