Helen Macdonald
Helen Macdonald is a writer, naturalist and former historian of science best-known for their award-winning 2014 memoir H is for Hawk, an account of training a goshawk following their father’s sudden death. Vesper Flights, a collection of essays about our relationship to the natural world, was published in 2020, and 2023 saw the publication of Prophet, their sci-fi thriller co-written over lockdown in a collaboration with Sin Blaché. Helen has written collections of poetry and presented television documentaries for PBS and the BBC and lives in Suffolk, England, with two small green parrots called The Bugs.
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In Conversation
Isabel Waidner, Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché
‘How does a writer transform a familiar object or character into an instrument of horror?’
Helen Macdonald, Sin Blaché and Isabel Waidner on defamiliarisation, multiple dimensions and constructing characters
