Helen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer, naturalist, and an d research scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. They are best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award; in 2016, it won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in . Macdonald is the child of British photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald. Macdonald is non-binary and uses she/they pronouns.