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Helen Lamb
Helen Lamb studied Scottish History and Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. She lives in Dunblane. She is an award-winning short-story writer and poet. Her first poetry collection, Strange Fish, was published in 1997. Her first short-story collection was published by Polygon in 2001 and in the US by Columbia University Press a year later. Winner of the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 short-story prize, her work has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. It has appeared in translation and been used on National Poetry Day postcards. Many of her stories have been broadcast on Radio 4. She was awarded a Scottish Arts Council writing bursary in 1999 and again in 2002. Helen has several years' experience of transmitting writing techniques to a wide range of people, including junior and senior school pupils, special needs groups as well as mainstream adult groups. She has edited and overseen the production of several writers' workshop anthologies. Since 1998, she has worked for Open Secret, a confidential service for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
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