Helen Whybrow is the author of A Man Apart and Dead Reckoning. She is also the editor of the anthologies Hearth and Coming to Land in a Troubled World. Her writing has appeared in Cagibi, Hunger Mountain, EatingWell, and Orion. She lives in Vermont’s Green Mountains, where she shepherds a two-hundred-acre organic farm.
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Books by Helen Whybrow
Nonfiction
Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life
A PBS NewsHour Summer Reading Recommendation
Featured on NPR’s Fresh Air
An Esquire “Best Books of Summer 2025”
Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land.