Helena Leigh Bell is an American accountant and author of speculative fiction and poetry,[1] active in the field since 2005.
[1] She lives in Durham, North Carolina,[1] where she works as a certified public accountant for Robertson CPA Firm, PLLC.
Bell attended the 2013 Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle.
[1] Her work has appeared in various periodicals, including Brain Harvest, Clarkesworld Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, The Dark, Drabblecast, Electric Velocipede, Escape Pod, Fireside Fiction, The Indiana Review, Lightspeed, New Haven Review, Pedestal Magazine, Rattle, Shimmer Magazine, Strange Horizons, Surreal South, and Toasted Cake, and the anthologies Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, The Best of Shimmer Magazine, UPGRADED: A Cyborg Anthology, and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017.
[3][2] "When We Were Giants" received an honorable mention for the 2015 James Tiptree, Jr.