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Heather Spears is a Canadian poet, novelist, and artist living in Denmark. Educated at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver School of Art, Spears emigrated to Denmark in 1962 where she also studied at the University of Copenhagen.
In 1989 her collection The Word for Sand won both the Governor-General's Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award. Spears won her first Pat Lowther Award in 1987 for How to Read Faces and her third in 2002 for Required Reading: a witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000
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