title: Helena Bell
text: # Helena Bell
  
  Helena Leigh Bell is an American accountant and author of speculative fiction and poetry, active in the field since 2005. She writes as Helena Bell, with some of her works published under her full name.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Bell has five graduate degrees, including a Masters in Accounting, a Juris Doctor degree, a Master of Laws, a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and another in Fiction from North Carolina State University. She is a former Scuba instructor and a certified cave diver. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, where she works as a certified public accountant for Robertson CPA Firm, PLLC.
  
  ## Literary career
  
  Bell attended the 2013 Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle. 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.
  
  