DEVELOPMENTAL CONSULTANT AND WRITING COACH

Specializes in developmental consult, read & report, and one-on-one coaching.

Genres: Long-form fiction (romance, fantasy, historical, contemporary), creative nonfiction (including memoir), nonfiction, and academic writing.

Helen (she/her) has over fifteen years of helping writers put their ideas into words.

As a writing coach, Helen helps writers of long-form fiction and creative nonfiction to stay accountable to their goals and move through the uncertainties and doubts that come up during the early stages of manuscript writing. As a developmental consultant, she specializes in creating relatable characters, compelling themes, and cohesive narratives. For nonfiction and academic writers, she offers developmental feedback on argument structure, research, and qualitative methodology.

Helen is the author of Medicine and Morality (UBC Press, 2019). Her essays on pop culture and identity appear in edited books, including Smart Chicks on Screen, Time Incorporated, and Han Kut: Critical Art and Writing by Korean Canadian Women. She has published several academic articles and written dozens of successful grant applications. She has also taught academic writing at Simon Fraser University.

For the past two years, Helen has been working on her first novel, which is an epic fantasy sapphic romance set in a world inspired by Korean mythologies and folklore.

When she isn’t writing, Helen loves to garden, sew, and dabble in crafts of all kinds