Helene Simkin Jara
Helene Simkin Jara is an award-winning author, actor, director and teacher. Her poems, stories, and plays have been published over 32 times, and have won various awards.
In September 2020, Helene published her third book, Turn Left at the Gorilla and Turn Down the Hall: and Other Stories. This collection of short stories runs the gamut from humor to tragedy, taking the reader on a ride within the human and sometimes not so human experience. Her self-published first book Because I Had To was on Kindle’s best-seller list in July 2014. She followed this success with her second book, True Doll Stories We Remember, an anthology of personal accounts of experiences with dolls.
Featured artist
Helene has contributed to several Coffee Contrails audio adventures. Listen to her short stories The Lawn, Maria, and her interview.
She is also featured in:
Sorrow by Anita Dime
Listen from Apple Podcasts.