About
Heather Sweeney is the author of the memoir Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage. She writes about divorce, life as a military spouse, parenting, and women’s health, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, Business Insider, TODAY.com, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Healthline, Reader’s Digest, Electric Literature, and Military.com, among many others. She lives in Virginia. Camouflage is her first book.
Featured Work
Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage
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.
Other Works
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Lessons Learned from My Dog
2023
Press and Media Mentions
- I thought I was prepared for my husband's military deployment. Then I realized I had no one to support me.
- Still Married to the Military: How Divorcing a Service Member Makes Custody a Minefield
- The Pros and Cons of Launching a Book Without a Publicist
- 9 Divorce Memoirs About the Empowering Potential of Endings
- Thanks for Sheltering Me
- My Body Went Through A Massive Change In My 40s. I Didn't Know What Had Really Happened Until Much Later.
- Divorce is having a moment. And I wish it had happened 10 years ago
- I Didn’t Publish a Word About My Divorce for a Year
- A Military Wife No More
- When I got divorced, I didn’t want to be in transition forever. Here’s how I moved on.
- ‘I Suffered Single Mom Guilt for Years, One Day Changed It All’
- The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 178: Heather Sweeney
- Freelance Writing Direct Podcast
- Let's Talk Memoir Podcast
- Divorce Happens Podcast
- Insights from the Couch Podcast
