She was in the original casts of Howard Goodall's "Girlfriends" and "The Hired Man". She played Linda in the second cast of "Blood Brothers" in the West End directed by Bill Kenwright. Heery began using her birth name for writing after winning The London Writer's Competition sponsored by Time Out Group. She was a member of The Royal Court Young Writers Group and took up a bursary at ITV on the New Writer's Initiative scheme. She has written for BBC series Radio 4 drama series "Brief Lives". and episodes of BBC Doctors, C4 Film Series Coming Up, BBC Brief Encounters mentored by Andrew Davies, and CBeebies Topsy and Tim. She is an award-winning short story writer, having been shortlisted and won prizes in 2016 Margery Allingham CWA writer's award, 2012 Bath Short story award, Exeter Short story award, Trisha Ashley Award, Fish short story award 2015. In 2012 she formed Twotreeisland films and won first prize in Southend-On-Sea film festival for the film "Beached". She wrote the plays "Feeding the Troll", which premiered at the Edinburgh festival, "Clip" which ran at Battersea Arts Centre, "First Kiss" and "Lauren The Brave" at the Landor Theatre, and "Sophie in Wonderland", which was produced by Theatre 503.