Helen Walsh

Helen Walsh was born in Warrington, England in 1977 and moved to Barcelona at the age of sixteen. Working as a “fixer”—a kind of agent—in the red-light district, she saved enough money to put herself through language school. She returned to England a year later and now works with underprivileged teenagers in North Liverpool. Her first novel, Brass, was published in 2004 and was the winner of a Betty Trask Prize.