Helen Collins is the author of two science fiction novels: the Locus Award-nominated Mutagenesis (Tor, 1993) and NeuroGenesis (Speculative Fiction Review, 2008). In addition, she published the mainstream romance Egret (with Haworth Press in 2001). This year second editions of MutaGenesis and NeuroGenesis were published in print by Niantic Press. Electronic versions are forthcoming. Her critical articles include "The Cooperative Vision in Science Fiction" (Communities/Journal of Cooperation) and "New Images of Sex in Science Fiction" (Nassau Review). She has also discussed SF themes at cons, in libraries, on radio and local television. At academic events her presentations include "The Alternate Woman" at a meeting New England Modern Language Association, as well as "The Science in Fiction" and "Orwell's 1984 in Relation to the Dystopian Tradition in Science Fiction" at a Nassau Community College Colloquium: Her most recent talk was "Animals and Aliens" given in the New London area.

After earning her MA in 18^th- and 19^th-century English Literature at the University of Connecticut, Collins joined the faculty at Brooklyn College and then Nassau Community College on Long Island, where for many years she taught courses ranging from science fiction to women writers. In addition to science fiction, she is strongly committed to animals, to old houses (she has restored her eighteenth-century house located on a threatened tidal marsh in Connecticut) and to the preservation of the natural environment.