Helen Shewolfe Tseng is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in San Francisco, whose work engages with wildlife observation, folk spiritualities, experimental self-publishing, computational poetics, game design, and trickster studies.
In 2025, Helen was a Leonardo@Djerassi Art+Science Resident at Djerassi Resident Artists Program; previously, they have been a 2023-24 San Francisco Arts Commission grantee, a 2023-24 Rhizome microgrant awardee, a 2023 Artist in Residence at Winslow House Project, a 2022 Thick Solidarity Resident at Montalvo Arts Center, the 2019 Designer in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, and a 2018-2019 YBCA Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
In 2024, Helen joined the editorial collective for Taper, a browser-based literary journal of computational poetry. Since 2019, Helen has been a practicing naturalist, with a focus on urban coyotes. Occasionally, Helen makes tiny games and maintains a self-hosted server.