Helena Minton has published Personal Effects and The Canal Bed with Alice James Books, and The Gardener and the Bees with March Street Press. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Poetry, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Sou'wester, and West Branch. Poems have also been anthologized in Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace, Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology, and Merrimack: A Poetry Anthology. She has taught English Composition and Creative Writing and worked for many years as a public librarian. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and serves on the Board of the Robert Frost Foundation, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She lives north of Boston.