Helen Barolini is an American writer, editor, and translator.
As a second-generation Italian American, Barolini often writes on issues of Italian-American identity.
Among her notable works are Umbertina (1979), a novel which tells the story of four generations of women in one Italian-American family; and an anthology, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women (1985), which called attention to an emerging, and previously unnoticed, class of writers.