Rate My Professor Helen Marshall

Marshall's short story collections Hair Side, Flesh Side (2012, ChiZine Publications) and Gifts for the One Who Comes After (2014, ChiZine Publications) collectively received the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award for excellence in psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantastic literature. Her debut novel The Migration (2019, Random House Canada/Titan UK) draws parallels between the fourteenth-century Black Death and twenty-first-century ecological crises, emphasizing hopeful transformation. Other key works include The Gold Leaf Executions (2022, Unsung Stories), Tomorrow's Language (2023, Brainjar Press), and forthcoming titles The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death (2025, Titan) and Story Thinking and the Real-World Applications of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing (2025, Bloomsbury Publishing, co-authored with Kim Wilkins and Lisa Bennett). She has edited collections such as The Year's Best Weird Fiction. Marshall applies creative methodologies transdisciplinarily, collaborating with the UK Ministry of Defence on future threat prediction, CERN on future technologies, Australia's Department of Defence on AI innovation (funded $260,000), and leading the Ursula Project for technology foresight with the Defence Science Technology Group (Web 3.0, funded $89,097). Recent publications include "Stories and Systems: Exploring Technological Impact in Complex Systems Through Creative Writing Techniques" (2024, Technological Forecasting and Social Change) and "Becoming Breadthrog: Role-Playing Games, Metacognition and the Creative Writer" (2024, TEXT).