Helen Garnons-Williams

Helen Garnons-Williams is Publishing Director of the Fig Tree imprint at Penguin. Over the course of her 20-year publishing career, Helen has discovered and edited a range of acclaimed, prize-winning and bestselling writers across fiction and non-fiction. Her authors include Jon McGregor, Sarah Winman, Elizabeth Day, Inua Ellams, Michael Donkor, Claire Fuller, Stephen Kelman, Gabriel Krauze, Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené, Rebecca Stott, Melanie Reid, Baroness Lola Young and Frances Ryan. She was shortlisted for Editor of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2018 and has been a judge for the Fish Short story prize and the Guardian 4th Estate short story BAME Prize. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.