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Helen M. Pugsley comes from a small town of twenty in eastern Wyoming but currently resides in Laramie. She has been writing since she was a child of four and has published three novels titled War and Chess, Tales from the Gishlan Wood, and The Tooth Fairy. When she’s not writing, she wanders around aimlessly in search of fruit.

Helen M. Pugsley currently boasts three published books, with more patiently waiting in a trunk she uses as a coffee table. Helen enjoys a small community of readers, and like-minded creators, on Patreon, as well as frequenting open mic nights at local independent coffee shops. Most recently, Helen was able to collaborate with the University of Wyoming Art Museum, and Write Time at the Center: UW's Creative Writing C Helen M. Pugsley comes from a small town of twenty in eastern Wyoming but currently resides in Laramie. She has been writing since she was a child of four and has published three novels titled War and Chess, Tales from the Gishlan Wood, and The Tooth Fairy. When she’s not writing, she wanders around aimlessly in search of fruit.

Helen M. Pugsley currently boasts three published books, with more patiently waiting in a trunk she uses as a coffee table. Helen enjoys a small community of readers, and like-minded creators, on Patreon, as well as frequenting open mic nights at local independent coffee shops. Most recently, Helen was able to collaborate with the University of Wyoming Art Museum, and Write Time at the Center: UW's Creative Writing Club, to have her poetry shown in answer to the MENA gallery installation. In 2025 she had a piece published in Amaranth Publications' Vultures anthology. Throughout 2022-2024 Helen had work featured in the Laramie Plains Museum newsletter: Mansion, Wyoming Writers, Inc. 50 Years of History and The Deserted Zine. She was awarded the Wyoming Arts Council Professional Development Grant/Career Advancement Grant to host book signings at Wyoming libraries and bring people back through the doors after Covid-19. Helen held these events in March 2022. She was selected for the WyoPoets scholarship in 2021 and had her six-word story, “I wanted to be a novelist,” published in Midway Journal’s July 2020 issue. In 2019, her poem “Constellation” was published in Madness Muse Press’ Magazine, Environmental Issue. Helen has had the privilege of writing devotionals for the American Baptist Churches of the Rocky Mountains newsletter and has been featured in newsletters from Wyoming Writers and WyoPoets. Her haiku “Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years” was published in Teen Ink Magazine’s April 2015 issue. Before aging out, Helen M. Pugsley (aka nelehjr) reached Diamond status on the site. In 2013, she won Honorable Mention for her flash fiction story in Scholastic’s Art and Writing Awards and again won Honorable Mention in the Scholastics contest in 2014 for her poetry. In 2012, she won an honorable mention in the Famous Poets annual contest and had an article about her summer camp experiences published in the camp’s newsletter. Helen M. Pugsley also holds second and third place awards in Wyoming Young Authors from grade school.

Helen loves to travel! She has held a total of twenty-one book signings to promote her books and has traveled extensively throughout North America just for fun. She’s immensely proud of the fact she was able to take herself to Mexico and Hawaii alone, but her farthest trip away from home was to Scotland with some friends. ...more

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“Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

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“Since I'm not dead yet I can talk back.”
― Amy Tan

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“Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.”
― Amy Tan, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

tags: autobiography, funny

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“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, libraries, library, reading

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“The things that I love about you aren't going to go away when you go on your book tour, and they're not going to go away when you go on your mission. I'll still be here, and I'll still be thinking about all those things. I'll still be working on being a better person, a better friend, a better son. I'll still be wondering what it would be like to be a better boyfriend for you. And you will be on your mission, thinking about how much you wish your weren't gay.”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

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