Helen Signy

Helen Signy is an Australian writer who grew up in England – or, depending how she feels that day, an English writer who lives in Australia. She completed an honours degree in English literature at the University of Birmingham then set off to travel the world. She worked for four years as a reporter at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and landed in Australia in 1992, where she scored a job at The Sydney Morning Herald. During her twenty years as a print journalist, she reported on the genocide in Rwanda and famine in Sudan, worked on the foreign desk, edited sections across the newspaper, and supported the early transition from print to digital in a role at smh.com.au, for which she and her colleagues won a Walkley award.

In 2008, Helen and two partners set up a communications strategy company, helping academics, governments and not-for-profits to better tell their stories. She currently works as a science communications adviser for a research centre involved in the prevention of chronic disease, and loves her continuing role as contributing editor to Reader’s Digest. She has never lost her passion for the thrill of a breaking story. This is her first foray into fiction.

Helen lives on the Northern Beaches in Sydney with her husband and two of her three (nearly) grown-up children.