About me

Hello! I'm Helen. I live in Sydney, where I am a Senior Journalist at the BBC.  
 

I have reported from Lebanon, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Federated States of Micronesia for the New Yorker, London Review of Books, New York Times, the Observer and the Guardian, where I was a reporter on the International desk and wrote a column called The Nature of, in which I profiled a different animal (and the occasional inanimate object) every two weeks. It was read three million times in two years.

 

I have been shortlisted for the Bragg Prize for Science Writing three times and my work features in four of the annual The Best Australian Science Writing anthologies. My reporting on Micronesia was supported by Arts NSW. 

 

I am represented by the Wylie Agency in London.