title: Helen Shaw (writer)
text: # Helen Shaw (writer)
  
  Helen Lilian Shaw (20 February 1913 – 13 June 1985) was a New Zealand short-story writer, poet and editor. She was born in Timaru, New Zealand, in 1913.
  
  Shaw met Czech-New Zealand photographer Frank Simon Hofmann in Christchurch in 1940. Together they moved to Auckland, where they wed on 24 December 1941.
  
  