Helen Wickes lives in Oakland, California and worked for many years as a psychotherapist. In 2002, she received an M.F.A. from Bennington College. Her first book of poems, In Search of Landscape, was published in 2007 by Sixteen Rivers Press. Her work has appeared in such journals as AGNI Online, South Dakota Review, ZYZZYVA, Pleiades, and Chicago Quarterly Review.