Claire Cameron's most recent novel, The Last Neanderthal, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. It sold in eleven territories. Her second novel, The Bear, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, sold in 10 territories, and was a #1 national bestseller. It won the North 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 New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and she is a contributor to The Globe and Mail. Her new book, How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir will be published in late March 2025. She lives in Toronto.