Helen Lehndorf is a Taranaki writer who lives in the Manawatū. She teaches creative writing and works in community development around food resilience and localisation.

She is the author of The Comforter (poetry) and Write to the Centre (creative non fiction). She is passionate about connecting people to both the healing potential of nature and of their own innate creativity.

Her writing has been described by reviewers as ‘vivid…bitingly funny and warmly sympathetic’ and ‘heartfelt, relatable and authentic’.