Helena Halme

Former BBC journalist, bookseller and magazine editor, Helena Halme holds an MSc in Marketing and an MA in Creative Writing. Helena grew up in Tampere, central Finland, and moved to the UK via Stockholm and Helsinki. She is the winner of the John Nurminen prize for best thesis on British politics and her articles have been published in the CoScan Magazine, The ScanMag, and the Finn-Guild Magazine.

Full-time author and mentor, Helena also acts as Nordic Ambassador for The Alliance of Independent Authors and has published six heartwarming Nordic romance novels and one non-fiction title, Write Your Story: Turn Your Life into Fiction in 10 Easy Steps. Apart from writing stories set in her native Finland, Helena is addicted to Nordic Noir and dances to Abba songs when nobody's watching.