Cameron was a wilderness instructor for Outward Bound[3] and she worked for The Taylor Statten Camps[4] in Algonquin Park.

Later she interned for Sierra Club Books in San Francisco and co-founded the consulting company Shift Learning[5] in London, England.

[10] Cameron was leading a trip through Algonquin Park a year after the bear attack on Lake Opeongo of October 11, 1991, which ended in the death of two adults.

[13] Cameron's third novel "The Last Neanderthal" was published (April 25, 2017) by Little Brown & Co in the U.S., Penguin Random House in Canada, and SEM Libri in Italian, and forthcoming from Cargo/De Bezige Bij in Dutch and Forlaget Bazar in Danish.

[23] Cameron has also written a collection of last words from Texas inmates' final statements and an Op-Ed about tree planting for The New York Times.

[24][25] Her short story, Jude the Brave,[26] won a silver medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards.