Local Author Series: Helen Whybrow

October 2, 2025: 6:00 PM at the Meriden Library: Helen Whybrow

Helen Whybrow is an award-winning author and lifelong steward of land and story. She is the author of A Man Apart and Dead Reckoning, and editor of anthologies including Hearth and Coming to Land in a Troubled World. Her most recent memoir, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life, chronicles the profound, lyrical journey of raising Icelandic sheep on her two-hundred-acre organic farm in Vermont’s Green Mountains.

After a distinguished career in publishing—including editorial roles at Orion Magazine, Countryman Press/W.W. Norton, Chelsea Green, and now as Editor-at-Large for Milkweed Editions—Helen left the urban publishing life to co-found a leadership nonprofit and tend to Knoll Farm with her partner, Peter Forbes, where they’ve quietly built a restorative community space since 2001. Her writing also appears in Cagibi, Hunger Mountain, EatingWell, and Orion.

In addition to her memoirs and essays, Helen shares her expertise through teaching: she’s a visiting professor at Middlebury College, and regularly leads workshops at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writer’s Conference and the Iowa Summer Writer’s Workshop. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Harvard.