Guðrið Helmsdal Nielsen (born 26 February 1941 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese poet.
Born as Guðrið Helmsdal Poulsen, she added her husband's surname when she married.
Born on 26 February 1941 in Tórshavn, Guðrið Helmsdal Nielsen spent the first 12 years of her life in the Faroe Islands, her parents being Annie Helmsdal and Hans Poulsen.
[1] Her second collection of poems, Morgun í mars, was published in 1971 and is written in two languages: Faroese and Danish.
In 1965, she married the Danish teacher and sculptor Ole Jakob Nielsen.