Helen Elliott is a prominent literary critic and journalist, author, and the editor of the anthology Grandmothers. Her writing has appeared in the Monthly, Australian, Age, Griffith Review, Best Australian Essays, Vogue and numerous other publications. She was for many years the literary editor of the Herald Sun. Helen’s inventive and original non-fiction work Eleven Letters to You was published in 2023. She has two children, four granddaughters and an acre of garden.