Heather is the founder, editor and director of Scarleteen.com, the inclusive online resource for young adult comprehensive sex education and information which began in 1998. She is also the author of S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College; a founder of the All Girl Army; an on-site abortion and birth control counselor for the Cedar River Clinics/Feminist Women's Health Center, and a sexual health consultant for the upcoming young women's site orb28. Her fiction and nonfiction has been published broadly, including in the anthologies Viscera, Aqua Erotica, Zaftig: Well-Rounded Erotica, The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 1 & 2, Shameless: An Intimate Erotica and in the forthcoming anthology Breakthrough Bleeding: Essays on The Thing Women Spend A Quarter Of Their Time Doing, But No One's Supposed To Talk About, and her photographic work has been shown in several gallery shows and publications.

She was the founder of Scarletletters.com in the nineties, the first online sexuality and arts hub for women online, and has the either laudable or embarrassing reputation of having one of the longest running personal journals online. Also a lead plantiff for the ACLU in the case against COPA, in 2007, she was recognized for her activist work in sexuality and sexual health by the National Sexuality Resource Center with a Champions of Sexual Literacy Award. Previous to her work in sexual health, Heather was a Montessori and alternative classroom educator. A Chicago native, she currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington.