Helen Salsbury is the author of coming-of-age novel Sometimes When I Sleep, along with many published short stories. Her forthcoming novel The Worry Bottles explores how landscape and history shape us, and how we shape it. Helen is the founder of Pens of the Earth: a community of writers and poets who create positive environmental fiction and poetry in collaboration with local environmentalists, exploring how we can make our environment better for ourselves and nature, celebrating the small differences we can achieve, and focussing on how together we can fight climate change through our words and actions. She is co-editor of Wild Seas, Wilder Cities, Pens of the Earth's first published book, which contains work from 54 contributors and is sold to raise money for the vital work of seagrass restoration in the Solent.