Helen Fremont is the author of the new memoir, "The Escape Artist," selected by The New York Times as an "Editor's Choice" book, as well as the national bestseller "After Long Silence."  Her works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, Ploughshares, and Harvard Review.  A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she has been a teaching fellow at both Bread Loaf and the Radcliffe Institute.  She was a Scholar in the Women's Studies Research Center Scholars Program at Brandeis University and worked as a public defender in Boston, where she now lives with her wife.

Website: https://www.helenfremont.com

Twitter Username: @helenfremont

Publications

• The Escape Artist , Simon & Schuster (February 11, 2020)
• After Long Silence , Penguin (February 9, 1999)

Awards

• Jay D. Blitzman Youth Advocacy Award(2011)
• Teaching Fellow at Bread Loaf(1999)
• Teaching Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute(2000)
• Brandeis Women's Research Center Scholar(2000)

Employment

• Trial Panel Oversight Attorney at Committee for Public Counsel Services (March 1985 - January 2019)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from Wellesley College (May 1978)
• Doctoral Degree in Law from Boston University School of Law (January 1982)
• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers (January 1991)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction