Helen Smith was born in London in November 1968 and she has one daughter, Lauren, with the writer Damon Rochefort. When her daughter was small, they travelled extensively in Australia, South East Asia, Hong Kong and South America before returning to the UK where her first novel, Alison Wonderland, was published in 1999 by Gollancz.

She was a winning writer in the IRDP London Playwrights Festival and her novels have been optioned for development by the BBC. She continues to work as a novelist and playwright and was the recipient of an Arts Council Award in 2008. She currently volunteers as a writing mentor with the Write to Life group run by the Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture.

Novels

• 1999 Alison Wonderland ISBN 0-575-06718-7
• 2000 Being Light ISBN 0-7538-1435-8

Children's Books

• 2002 Grave-Robbers, Cut-throats & Poisoners of London ISBN 1-904153-00-3
• 2004 Pirates, Swashbucklers & Buccaneers of London ISBN 1-904153-17-8

2009 Purple, Silver, Olive, OrangeArcola Theatre, London2007 The Psychic Detective

1995 Looking for Baby Jesus