Helen Sedgwick

Helen Sedgwick is a contemporary and science fiction author from the Scottish Highlands. She attended Glasgow University from where she got her Masters in Creative Writing in Literature after which she became the winner of the New Writers Award by the Scottish Book Trust for her short fiction. Her debut novel “The Comet Seekers” was the Herald and Glamour’s best book of the year in 2016 while her second novel “The Growing Season” made the shortlist for Fiction Book of the Year by Saltire Society. In 2020, Helen published “When The Dead Come Calling” which is just the first of her new “Burrowhead Mystery” series. She has worked a managing editor at Gutter, managing director at Cargo publishing, literary editor, and founded of the Wildland Literary Editors agency. She has also worked as a reviewer, creative writing tutor, publisher, freelance editor, and mentor. While she is now fully immersed in writing, she did not start as a writer. As a young adult, she went to Bristol University from where she graduated with a degree in physics before she got her doctorate from Edinburgh University. Afterward, she pursued a career as a research physicist at Edinburgh University before she ventured into fiction writing. The London bred author has lived in Glasgow and Edinburgh though she now lives in the Scottish Highlands since she finds the tranquility perfect for a life of writing.