​Photo credit: Photography by Gem (2020)

Helen Cooper is a writer of psychological thrillers from Derby, England.

She has taught English and Academic Writing in both Further and Higher Education and was Head of Learning Enhancement at the University of Birmingham. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University and has been published in Woman, Writers’ Forum, Mslexia, the Lincolnshire Echo and Derbyshire Life. She was shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Prize in 2014 and came third in the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize in 2018.

Her first novel,The Downstairs Neighbour, was published in February 2021 and her second, The Other Guest, will be out in June 2022.

Helen has also co-authored two books on academic writing for university students, published by Bloomsbury Academic.

She loves reading, walking, pasta, and wine.

Her agent is Hellie Ogden, Janklow & Nesbit UK.