About Hélène

Hélène is a poet and psychotherapist living in South Devon.  Her debut collection, ‘The Plumb Line’ was joint winner of the Hedgehog Press Poetry Collection Competition 2020. The collection was published in 2022. The title comes from a dream conversation she had with her father.

She spent 8 years of her early childhood growing up in the Swiss Alps, before moving to the South East of England. She studied English Literature at Leeds University, and trained and worked as an actor in her twenties, before training in Psychosynthesis psychotherapy.  She has been widely published in poetry magazines, anthologies and webzines, including: Poetry London, Magma, Abridged, The Aftershock Review, and Live Canon. She is winner of the Ware Poets’ Open Competition, 2026, was placed 2nd in The Poetry London Prize, 2025, and equal 4th in the Kent & Sussex Poetry Competition, 2025. In 2022 she won The Silver Wyvern, Poetry On The Lake.  She has been short-listed in the Bridport, longlisted in the National, and commended in a number of other competitions.