Helen is a poet and novelist whose newest novel The German Sisters will be published by Union Square & Company on January 19, 2027.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and in The Iowa Review where she won the Iowa Review award in poetry.

Her third novel The Latecomers is a saga of five generations, set in an ancestral home in Connecticut where details of a death in 1926 are discovered when the house is renovated in present day.

Her second novel What Was Mine tells the story of a kidnapping from many points of view. It was chosen by People magazine as a “Best New Book of 2016.”

Helen is the creator and editor of a poetry anthology The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, a compendium of new poems titled by old telegrams sourced from an 1853 book she discovered on Twitter. Contributors include Billy Collins and Frank Bidart.

Helen has long been interested in digital ways to tell stories. In her former life in advertising, she was the creator of an award winning ad blog (AdBroad) and the acclaimed Twitter handle @BettyDraper. Her channeling Mad Men characters earned her invitations to speak at conferences (SXSWi, Digital Hollywood, STORYWORLD) and citations in books on new media entertainment including The Art of Immersion by Wired editor Frank Rose. She is an avid speaker on 21st century storytelling. Appearances include Duke and Columbia Universities.

Helen graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA from The New School. She lives in New York City and Lakeville, CT.