Welcome to the official website of Helen Lowe.
Thornspell is available September 2008
Jacket art by Antonio Javier Caparo
I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, and write Fantasy-SciFi novels, poetry, and short fiction, and host a monthly poetry feature for Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM.
I am represented by Robin Rue of Writers House Literary Agency in New York.
Thornspell
Thornspell is my first novel and will be published by Knopf (Random House Children's Books, USA) on 9 September 2008.
The Wall of Night Series
The Wall of Night is the first in a 4-book epic fantasy that is to be published by Eos (HarperCollins USA).
Yrth
The Heartstone of Yrth is the working title of my latest Children's/Young Adult Fantasy novel, also to be published by Knopf.
To find out more about each book, click on the buttons to the right.
I have also been published by the NZ Listener, Takahe, a fine line, the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre, Blackmail Press, Yellow Moon and foam:e (Australia), and Carve (USA) literary journals, the Christchurch Press and Waikato Times newspapers, and broadcast on both Radio New Zealand and Plains 96.9 FM. I have been anthologized in Home: New Short Short Stories by New Zealand Writers (Random House New Zealand, 2005), The Best of Carve Magazine (USA, 2006), tiny gaps (NZ Poetry Society, 2006) and the taste of nashi, the third New Zealand haiku anthology (Windrift, 2008).