HELEN JUKESis the author of the acclaimed memoirA Honeybee Heart has Five Openings , a Book of the Year inBBC Countryfile, Glamour UK andSlate and a London Review of Books Book of the Week. It was shortlisted for theBooks Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.Jukes'writinghas appeared inThe New York Times, Port Magazine, Aeon, The Clearing, Caught by the River , among others.Her forthcoming book, Mother, Animal, has been awarded grant funding by Arts Council England.She currently teaches on the Creative Writing programme at the University of Oxford, and is a guest lecturer at the University of Nottingham. She lives on the edge of the Peak District with her daughter.