Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys (born 13 June 1961) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

Personal life

Humphreys was born in London, England, along with her brother Martin and sister Cathy. She now lives in Kingston, Ontario with her dog Hazel. When she was younger she was expelled from high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education.[1]

Writing career

Humphrey's first novel, Leaving Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, and a winner of the City of Toronto Book Award.[2]

In describing how she became a writer, Humphreys said, "I started writing when I was young and I just kept going. I read voraciously. I sent my poems (for I was writing exclusively poems then) out to magazines, and eventually I began to get them published. My first book of poetry came out when I was 25." [3]

The Globe and Mail had this to say about Ms. Humphrey's most recent novel: "The Evening Chorus, when all is said and done, is a formally conventional but for the most part satisfying yarn; a quiet novel about a calamitous event whose most trenchant passages show the cast of Humphreys’s poet’s eye."

Works

Poetry

Novels

Nonfiction

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Biography at Canadian Authors
  2. 1 2 Linda Richards (October 2002). "Interview with Helen Humphrey". January Magazine.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ , National Post, April 5, 2013.
  5. ↑ Helen Humphreys wins $10,000 literary prize. CBC News, 23 September 2009.

External links

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