Helen Ellis

Helen Ellis is an American novelist. She has authored two published novels and several works of short fiction.

Her first novel, Eating the Cheshire Cat (Scribner: 2001), is a dark comedy written in Southern Gothic fiction style. It tells the story of three girls raised in the South, and the odd, sometimes macabre tribulations they endure.

Her second novel, The Turning Book: What Curiosity Kills (Powell's Books: 2010), is a "teen vampire" story about a southern 16-year-old girl adopted into a wealthy New York City family and centers on shape-shifting, teen romance, and the supernatural.