Helen Humphreys is a novelist and poet. She is a recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence and lives in Kingston, Ont.

Her 2015 novel, The Evening Chorus, was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award. Her memoir, Nocturne, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Previous novels include Coventry, a finalist for the Trillium Book Award; Afterimage, inspired by the life of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, which won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; Leaving Earth, which won the Toronto Book Award; and The Lost Garden, which was a Canada Reads selection in 2003, defended by Mag Ruffman. Her other books include, Machine Without Horses, the book of essays The Ghost Orchard.