Helen Sorrells (b. 1908) From a Correct Address in a Suburb of a Major City LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Helen Sorrells (b. 1908) Born in Stafford, Kansas, the daughter of farmers, Sorrells earned a B.S. from Kansas State University in 1931. She married a technical writer, had two children and was approaching her seventh decade when she won the Borestone Award for her poem "Cry Summer." In 1968, she won the Arizona Quarterly Award for poetry and in 1973 received a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Award for the poem "Tunnels." She has contributed to Esquire and Reporter, among others, and published a collection of poems, Seeds as They Fall (1971).