HELEN HUMPHREYS is the award-winning author of fiction, creative-non-fiction, and poetry. The Toronto Star calls her, “one of this country’s most beautiful writers.” She has won the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize, a Lambda Award for Fiction, and the City of Toronto Book Award. She has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Book Prize, the Commonwealth Prize, The IMPAC Dublin prize, and her work has been optioned for stage, film, TV, and opera. In 2023 she was awarded the Matt Cohen Writers Trust prize for her life in writing. Her latest book is a novel about Henry David Thoreau called Followed By the Lark (2024). Born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, Helen lives and writes in Kingston, Ontario, where she is Director of Creative Writing at Queen’s University.
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