Pot Luck Poetry – Featured Artist Helen McKenzie- Ross

Helen McKenzie-Ross is an award winning actor, writer and children’s poet.

Whilst attending regular acting classes in her twenties, little did she know that a poet was soon to be born. And all because of a gorilla named Lulu. As part of a drama assignment, Helen had to ‘perform’ a poem or piece about an animal, as selected by a ‘lucky dip’.

Subsequently, her first poem, Lulu, the Gorgeous Gorilla was penned. This led to her studying a ‘Diploma in Writing’ with the NSW Writing School and undertaking subsequent poetry writing workshops in a variety of styles.

Helen’s array of poetry has been published in anthologies and collections including her own children’s collection of giggle poems, ‘Bubble Gum Trouble and Other Giggle Poems’, published in 2009.

Helen has been a visiting children’s poet in many schools, libraries and community events in Queensland, NSW and Victoria.