Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize The Lost Garden (2002) Wild Dogs (2004) - adapted for the stage by Anne Hardcastle in 2008 The Frozen Thames (2007) Coventry (2008) The Reinvention of Love (2011) The Evening Chorus (2015) Machine Without Horses (2018) Rabbit Foot Bill (2020) Nonfiction Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother (2013) The River (2015) The Ghost Orchard: The Hidden History of the Apple in North America (2017) Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium (2021) And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life (2022) Awards Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry for Anthem (1990) New York Times Notable Book (1998) for Leaving Earth City of Toronto Book Award for Leaving Earth Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2000) for Afterimage Harbourfront Festival Prize (2009) The Reinvention of Love (2011) was longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award and shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association for Fiction Appointed to a four-year term as Poet Laureate of Kingston, Ontario, March 2015 The Evening Chorus was longlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. References External links Helen Humphreys fonds at Queen's University Archives https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/books/review/Haslett-t.html?_r=0 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/12/coventry-helen-humphreys The Independent http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/09/09/open-book-the-reinvention-of-love-by-helen-humphreys/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/helen-humphreyss-the-evening-chorus-is-a-formally-conventional-but-satisfying-yarn/article23116941/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-reinvention-of-love-by-helen-humphreys/article557355/ 1961 births Living people Canadian women novelists Canadian women poets English emigrants to Canada Harbourfront Festival Prize winners Writers from Kingston, Ontario 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists Canadian lesbian writers Canadian LGBT poets Canadian LGBT novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Poets Laureate of places in Canada Lesbian novelists