Helen Sedgwick


Helen Sedgwick is an author of literary fiction and crime fiction, a literary editor, and a research physicist.

Life

Sedgwick was born in London and studied physics at Bristol University. She gained a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University and she has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University.
After leaving physics research to become a freelance writer, Sedgwick worked as the joint managing director of Cargo Publishing from 2014 to 2015, Sedgwick was also the managing editor of Gutter magazine and worked as a creative writing tutor.
She released her first novel in 2016, The Comet Seekers, which was published by Harvill Secker in the UK and by HarperCollins in the US and Canada. This was followed by her second novel, The Growing Season, which was shortlisted for a Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year in 2018. Sedgwick's latest novel is When The Dead Come Calling, the first book in the Burrowhead Mysteries crime trilogy. She cites her scientific background as a big influence on her writing.
Sedgwick is a member of The Society of Authors and the Crime Writers' Association. She lives in Tain, in Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlandswith her partner and their daughter.

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