About Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys (born March 29, 1961) is a Canadian poet and novelist. == Personal life == Humphreys was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England. Her brother Martin and sister Cathy were born after the family moved to Canada. She now lives in Kingston, Ontario, with her dog, Fig. When she was younger, Humphreys was expelled from high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education. == Writing career == Humphreys's first novel, Leaving Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, and a winner of the City of Toronto Book Award. In describing how she became a writer, Humphreys said: "I started writing when I was young and I just kept going. I read voraciously. I sent my poems (for I was writing exclusively poems then) out to magazines, and eventually I began to get them published. My first book of poetry came out when I was 25." In a very favourable review of The Reinvention of Love in The Globe and Mail, Donna Bailey Nurse wrote: "The story is set amid the political turbulence and artistic fervour of 19th-century Paris.
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