Helen Lamb

Helen Lamb (1956–27 March 2017) was an award-winning Scottish poet and short story writer who also worked with the cancer caring Maggie's Centres in the Forth Valley promoting the role of writing in well-being.

[1] Lamb was a writer, educator, mother and grandmother [2] who lived in Dunblane with Chris Powici,[3] who is also a poet, former editor of literary magazine Northwords and a teaching fellow at the University of Stirling.

Her poetry has been published in literary journals and in the joint anthology Strange Fish[4] along with fellow poet Magi Gibson.

[1] She died suddenly in 2017 shortly after finishing her first novel Three Kinds of Kissing,[8] described by fellow author Tracey Emerson as "a subtly devastating wonder".

[9] Lamb won the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 prize for her story "Long Grass, Moon City".