Hélène Herault

Hélène Herault is is a French writer and poet. She views writing as an essential, indispensable act. Her incisive poetry and prose draw on her life experiences as an activist, mother, grandmother, and reader of many, many books. Previous work includes the short story collection La Petite Prigent, winner of the 2018 Ozoir’Elles prize, and the short stories “Un Exil de Papier”, awarded second prize in the 2019 Concours de Nouvelles LIBRE-Librinova, and “Au Prix Fort”, which appeared in the anthology Loin du Coeur (benefiting the Solidarité Femmes foundation). Her recent epistolary novella, Sens Unique, was published in 2024 by L’Ire de L’ours. She is a frequent and longstanding contributor of poetry to Pro/p(r)ose Magazine.