About

Helen Trinca is an Australian journalist and author. She has been managing editor and as February 2023 is associate editor at The Australian.
Trinca was born in Perth and graduated from the city's University of Western Australia with a BA in English and anthropology. She began her career in journalism on The West Australian. She moved to Sydney in 1980.
Her third book, Madeleine, is a biography of Madeleine St John, who was the first Australian female writer to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1997. Trinca's book was a joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.