Helen Elliott is a literary critic, journalist and author of an acclaimed memoir, Eleven Letters to You: A Memoir, an intimate account of growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne in the fifties and sixties, which Helen Garner has called “a quietly ecstatic work of memory, intense, witty and beautiful".

Helen has been a columnist for many major publications on food, aesthetics, gardening and fashion, as well as literature. In 2021, she edited a collection of personal essays by Australian women titled, Grandmothers.