HE Nelson

H.E. Nelson holds a BA in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University and is doing her MA in Book Publishing at Portland State University. She primarily writes adult dark fantasy romance and new adult urban fantasy romance, where themes of identity, loss, and transformation meet a deep fascination with symbolic imagery, power dynamics, and the invisible architecture of pain. Her stories often explore what happens when someone is told they’re too much—for feeling, for questioning, for surviving—and still dares to take up space. A lifelong “problem child” and unapologetic question-asker, her writing pulls from a childhood marked by exile, defiance, and the kind of silence that demands breaking. She has previously volunteered at After Dinner Conversation Magazine as both a short story reader and anthology director, as well as served on student government in community college focusing on community wellness and student grants. HE Nelson lives on the West Coast with her husband and their cat, Valis, who serves as both muse and menace. When she’s not writing, she can be found binge reading on Kindle Unlimited, alpha/beta reading for friends and family, and continuing her own hero’s journey on the ever-elusive quest of trimming Valis’s nails.