Helen Hemphill


Helen Hemphill is an author in the Children's Literature genre.

Biography

Helen Delane Hemphill was born in Bridgeport, Texas on July 1, 1955. She received her BA from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls in 1977. She also earned her MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College and MA in English Literature from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Hemphill lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee.

Career

Helen Hemphill worked for 20 years in advertising and public relations prior to her second career in teaching. She taught 6th grade language arts for four years at Oak Hill School in Nashville, was a writer in residence for Franklin Road Academy in Nashville, an adjunct instructor at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, and directed The Whole Novel Workshop for the Highlights Foundation. She is a trainer for The Six Traits Writing model and a teaching fellow for the National Writing Project.
She has three books so far in her career as an author, all published by Front Street, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press. Her first book was Long Gone Daddy, published in 2006. Her next book, Runaround, was published in 2007. Her latest book, The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones, was published in 2008. Hemphill is currently working on a YA thriller.

Published works

Long Gone Daddy
Runaround
The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones