Helen Stringer, grew up in Liverpool, England, and currently lives in Redwood City in northern California. While in Liverpool, she was active in the music scene where she edited local music paper MerseySound while researching the life of the Countess of Sefton through her late 19th century diaries for an exhibition on behalf of Merseyside County Museums.
After moving to the United States, she studied film and was a Directing Fellow at the AFI. She then worked for some years as a development executive for All American/Pearson. Her first book, SPELLBINDER, was published by Feiwel & Friends in 2009, and was followed by MIDNIGHT GATE. In 2014 her scifi novel, PARADIGM, won a silver medal at the IBPA’s Benjamin Franklin Awards.
She recently returned to her first love and completed filming of episode one of THE GLOAMING, a paranormal/scifi adventure that explores the confluence of ancient legend and quantum mechanics (with a crossover character from the SPELLBINDER novels, because why not).
Helen lives and works in an old barn that used to be a ballet school, along with an embarrassing number of cats and the occasional visiting raccoon.

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