Helen Collins is the author of three novels: the Locus Award-nominated Mutagenesis (Tor, 1993), the mainstream romance Egret (Haworth Press, 2001), and NeuroGenesis (Speculative Fiction Review, 2008).

After earning her MA in 18^th- and 19^th-century English Literature at the University of Connecticut, she joined the faculty at Brooklyn College and then Nassau Community College on Long Island, where for many years she taught courses ranging from science fiction to women writers. Her critical articles include "The Cooperative Vision in Science Fiction" (Communities/Journal of Cooperation) and "New Images of Sex in Science Fiction" (Nassau Review). She has also discussed SF themes at cons, in libraries, on radio and local television, and at academic events such as NEMLA and the Nassau Community College Colloquium: "The Alternate Woman," "The Science in Fiction," "Orwell's 1984 in Relation to the Dystopian Tradition in Science Fiction." Her most recent talk was "animals and aliens."

And her latest venture is establishing Dark Energy Press, LLC, which is reissuing Mutagenesis and NeuroGenesis in addition to other literary works.

In addition to science fiction, she is strongly committed to animals, to old houses (she has restored her eighteenth-century house in Niantic, CT), and to the preservation of the natural environment (said house overlooks a threatened tidal marsh).