HELEN FOGWILL PORTER

Helen was born, grew up and still lives in St. John's Newfoundland. Her first book, Below the Bridge, was published in 1980.

For about thirty-five years she has been writing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and reviews. Her work has been featured in many anthologies and her stories, poetry and reviews have been published in Canadian magazines and journals, and overseas. She has written ten plays which have been produced for radio and/or stage. Most of Helen's work is set in St. John's; she is keenly interested in regional speech.

Her young adult novel January, February, June and July won the Young Adult Canadian Book Award, presented by the Canadian Library Association in 1988. In 1993, Helen received the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1997, Helen received an honorary doctor of letters degree from the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Selected Publications:

Finishing School
Pottersfield Press, 2007

A Long and Lonely Ride
Breakwater Books, 1991

January, February, June or July
Breakwater Books, 1988

• Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award, 1989
• Shortlisted for the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award
  

Below the Bridge
Breakwater Books, 1990

For Every Man an Island
Breakwater Books, 1982

From This Place
Jesperson Press, 1977
(with Bernice Morgan and Geraldine Rubia)