Helen Bain author biography, plus links to books by Helen Bain.

Helen Bain

Helen Bain received her PhD in creative writing from King's College London and has master's degrees in modern and contemporary literature and creative writing from Birkbeck, University of London. She was selected for The London Library Emerging Writers' Program 2020–21 and The Genesis Foundation Emerging Writers' Program 2022–23. In 2024, she won The People's Friend Comedy Fiction Prize. Currently at the Financial Times, she has worked for British Vogue and The Guardian, and she also teaches creative writing at the university level. Helen lives in Sussex. The Daffodil Days is her first novel.

This biography was last updated on 06/09/2026.

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