HELEN JUKES is the author of the acclaimed memoir A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings, a Book of the Year in BBC Countryfile, Glamour UK and Slate and a London Review of Books Book of the Week. It was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award. Jukes’ writing has appeared in The New York Times, Port Magazine, Aeon, The Clearing, Caught by the River, among others. Her forthcoming book, Mother, Animal, has been awarded grant funding by Arts Council England. She currently teaches on the Creative Writing programme at the University of Oxford, and is a guest lecturer at the University of Nottingham. She lives on the edge of the Peak District with her daughter.
