Heather Lyon is a visual artist born on the coast of Maine. She holds both an MFA and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received a Trustee Merit Scholarship for her graduate work. After living and working in Chicago, Paris, and Nantes, she moved back to the land where she was born. Currently, she teaches art at the Blue Hill Harbor School, an alternative High School. She has exhibited her work in Chicago, France, New York, Virginia, and Maine.