Helen Williams decided at the age of 14 that she would be a writer, the result of her fiction story placing first in her high school English class. She has written throughout her life—short stories, books, articles, poetry, essays—and is always involved in numerous projects. 

      She worked at The Jackson County Star, the local newspaper based in Walden, Colorado, from 2003 to 2013, where she copy edited the paper, wrote the local news column, and wrote occasional business, political and feature articles. Her feature on a retired local doctor won second place in the Best Series category in the Colorado Press Association’s annual competition. 

Sing To Me In Spanish

   Helen spent 13 months at an orphanage in rural Mexico, teaching English and computers to middle school students. This book describes that year. At the end of each chapter are letters from the children she taught, the Spanish version and a side-by-side English translation. At the end of the book are photos of the children and the orphanage. 

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 Roy Romer Is Alive and Well and Living in California

     Before moving back to her hometown of Walden in 2003, Helen worked for the Colorado legislature and, on and off for 16 years, for Colorado’s treasurer/governor Roy Romer. When Governor Romer left office in 1999, Helen put together a book of stories that reveal the real Roy Romer his colleagues and staff knew—driven, dedicated, hardworking, warm, affectionate, humorous, impatient and idiosyncratic. These are the stories former staffers tell each other over a beer and are too good to be lost. Roy Romer Is Alive and Well and Living in California is an indispensable book for everyone interested in Colorado politics and history.

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