Helene Wecker grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, a small town north of Chicago, and received her Bachelor’s in English from Carleton College in Minnesota. After graduating, she worked a number of marketing and communications jobs in Minneapolis and Seattle before deciding to return to her first love, fiction writing. Accordingly, she moved to New York to pursue a Master’s in fiction at Columbia University.

She now lives near San Francisco with her husband and daughter. Her first novel, THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI, was published in 2013 by HarperCollins.

Fall 2014 Living Writers Series:

October 9: Ariel Gore

October 16: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler

October 23: Andrew Lam, Kate Gale

October 30: Tobias Wolff

November 6: Helene Wecker

November 13: ASL Performer Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace

November 20: Kelly Link, Kim Stanley Robinson, Karen Joy Fowler

December 4: Katie Crouch

December 11: Student Reading

All events are free and open to the public from 4:00-5:45pm in Humanities Lecture Hall 206. Click here for more information, or email meperks@ucsc.edu.