Helen Heath is a poet, essayist and academic from the Kapiti Coast, Wellington. Her debut collection of poetry Graft won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry award in 2013 and was the first book of fiction or poetry to ever be shortlisted for the Royal Society of NZ Science Book Prize. Her new collection of poems, about the intersect between people and technology, is called Are Friends Electric? (VUP 2018).

Photo by Victoria Birkinshaw

List of publications:
Graft, VUP, 2012
Are Friends Electric, VUP, 2018