Helen Winslow Black is a native of Glencoe, Illinois, and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Chicago. A former lawyer, she stayed home to raise her five children in the Pacific Northwest and now lives with The World’s Most Patient Husband in Portland, Oregon and Buena Vista, Colorado. Helen has been reading voraciously since the age of three and writing since the age of five. She is a serious novelist and an accidental humorist and loves to swim, hike, travel the world (especially Australia and New Zealand) and talk on the phone with her five adult children– but please! not after ten o’clock at night! Songs My Mother Taught Me is a companion volume to her earlier Firebird Award-winning book Seven Blackbirds, which she reissued last year to critical acclaim including nods from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly. She loves to talk about writing and recently finished a series of over two dozen radio and podcast interviews about Seven Blackbirds and how she addresses the sensitive issue of domestic violence recovery through fiction.
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