Helene Wecker

Helen Wecker is a historical fiction and fantasy author best known as the author of the “Golem and the Jinni” series of novels. She was born in Libertyville, Illinois and as a teen went to Carleton College in Minnesota for her bachelor’s in English degree. Once she graduated from college, she worked several communications and marketing jobs in Seattle and Minneapolis, before she decided to go back to writing fiction that had always been her first love. She also moved to New York and went to Columbia University to pursue an MFA in fiction. The Jewish author met her Syrian American husband and this provided much of the fodder for the stories in her novels. The immigrant experiences and mystical traditions between the two cultures offer unique perspectives that have made her work intriguing. Her work has been featured in “Joyland” the online magazine and she has read her short stories at the “Barbershop Reading” series in San Francisco and the “KGB Bar” in Manhattan. The Chicago born author now makes her home in New York, Seattle and San Francisco. “The Golem and the Jinni” her debut novel came out in 2013.