Helen was born in Taiwan and has lived in Eugene since 1977, except for six years in Portland, during which time she studied at PNCA and received her Bachelor of Fine Art in 1984. Helen is coauthor with Professor Ellen Johnston Laing on “Up in Flames: the Ephemeral Art of Pasted-Paper Sculpture in Taiwan,” a work based on Helen’s Master of Art thesis and published by Stanford University Press in 2004.