Claire Cameron’s memoir, How to Survive a Bear Attack, won the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. Her most recent novel, The Last Neanderthal, was a national bestseller, and her second novel, The Bear, also a bestseller, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. It won the North Lit Award from the Ontario Library Service, which her first novel, The Line Painter also won. Claire has led canoe trips in Algonquin Park and was an instructor for Outward Bound, teaching mountaineering, climbing and whitewater rafting in Oregon and beyond. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Millions, and The Guardian, and she is a contributor to The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto with her family.
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