Helen Phillips (born 1981)[1][2] is an American novelist.
When she was a child she was affected by alopecia and by the age of 11 she had lost all of her hair.
[3] She graduated from Yale University in 2004,[4] and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2007.
Her debut was the story collection And Yet They Were Happy, which was published in 2011.
[6] In 2012 it was listed as a "highly recommend" notable collection by The Story Prize.