Helen Lowe is a New Zealand-based novelist. Her first novel, THORNSPELL, was published in 2008. She has since published the first two books in The Wall of Night quartet, THE HEIR OF NIGHT and THE GATHERING OF THE LOST. Lowe is a three time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award, and won the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer in 2012.