Helen Corcoran is an Irish author of YA fantasy novels and a former bookseller. She was the Irish recipient of the 2021 Chrysalis Award from the European Science Fiction Society.
Helen Corcoran grew up in Cork, Ireland, dreaming of scheming queens and dashing lady knights. She decided to become a writer at age eight.
She discovered fantasy and horror through the works of Michael Scott, Tamora Pierce, and Christopher Pike, and never stopped reading teen fiction when the term no longer applied to her.
She was a bookseller for over a decade after graduating from Trinity College, Dublin.
Her debut novel, Queen of Coin and Whispers, released in 2020, introduces readers to an idealistic queen and her cunning spymaster. The idea for "Queen of Coin and Whispers" struck her in late 2013, and after several drafts and revisions, the novel came to fruition.
The book weaves a tale of politics, intrigue, and slow-burning romance set against the backdrop of a bankrupt kingdom. The sequel, Daughter of Winter and Twilight, came out in 2023.
Helen Corcoran currently lives in Dublin.
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