Heather Grant worked as a primary school teacher and as a librarian, then, on resigning from the library, took a glove puppet show around the New South Wales outback for three years. She moved to England, where she performed in the pantomime 'Jamie' for two years, taught, and held puppet shows.
She returned to Australia to take up a tour of her puppets in South Australia, and met and married John Grant, also a puppeteer. They both performed in the 'Here's Humphrey Show' for three years, with Heather writing the scripts and her husband making handcarved marionettes and props.
With the birth of their son they gave up puppeteering in order to provide a settled environment for their son's education . Heather returned to teaching and John went to work at the Art School but they maintained their links with puppetry through the Noarlunga Puppetry Guild. Heather has also written play scripts and some verse.