About me

Hello! I'm Helen. I have reported from Lebanon, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Federated States of Micronesia for the New Yorker, London Review of Books, New York Times, the Observer and the Guardian, where I have a column called The Nature of, in which I profile a different animal (and the occasional inanimate object) every two weeks. It has been read three million times in two years.

 

I have been shortlisted for the Bragg Prize for Science Writing three times and my work features in four of the annual The Best Australian Science Writing anthologies. I am South African, but live in Sydney, where I am a reporter on the Guardian’s International desk. My reporting on Micronesia was supported by Arts NSW. 

 

My first book, a memoir called Freak of Nature, will be published by Scribner Australia in 2024. I am represented by the Wylie Agency in London.