Helen Klein Ross is a poet and novelist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and in The Iowa Review where it won the 2014 Iowa Review award in poetry. She graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA from The New School. In her former life as a writer/creative director at global ad agencies in NYC and San Francisco, she created the award winning blog Adbroad.com and acclaimed Twitter handle @BettyDraper.
Her first novel, Making It: A Novel of Madison Avenue was the first e-book with a digital epilogue which links to online content where readers can explore material created by each character: makingitafterwords.tumblr.com
Her second novel What Was Mine tells the story of a girl who discovers that she wasn't adopted, she was kidnapped. It was chosen by People magazine as a "Best New Book of 2016."
Her new novel The Latecomers, is the story of an Irish immigrant, an ancestral home in New England and the dark secrets hidden in its walls for generations. Interweaving timelines span an American century, from 1899 to present day.
Helen is also the creator and editor of The Traveler's Vade Mecum, an anthology of new poems titled by old telegrams sourced from an 1853 book she discovered on Twitter. Over 70 contributing poets include Frank Bidart and Billy Collins.
Helen lives with her husband in New York and Northwest Connecticut.
This biography was last updated on 11/06/2018.
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