Susan Henderson

Current

Author at HarperCollins Publishers
Author and Curator at NPR
Blogger at LitPark.com

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Past

Volunteer at We Are Family Foundation
Blogger at Huffington Post and The Nervous Breakdown
Managing Editor at Night Train literary magazine

Rape Crisis Counselor at Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR)
Writer at ABC News (literacy campaign - interactive media program)

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Education

Vanderbilt University
Carnegie Mellon University
Washington-Lee High School

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Recommended

8 people have recommended Susan

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177 connections

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Susan Henderson’s Summary

SUSAN HENDERSON is Curator of NPR’s newest literary venture, "DimeStories," produced by Jay Allison (of "This I Believe"), and is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets award and grants from The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and The Lojo Foundation. Her work has—twice—been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Publications include Zoetrope, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, South Dakota Review, The MacGuffin, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2004), North Atlantic Review, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Opium, Other Voices, Amazon Shorts (nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2006), The World Trade Center Memorial, The Future Dictionary of America (McSweeney’s Books, 2004), The Best American Non-Required Reading (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), Not Quite What I Was Planning (HarperPerennial, 2008), and Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (Snowvigate Press, 2009). She blogs at LitPark.com, and occasionally at Huffington Post and Brad Listi’s The Nervous Breakdown. Her husband is a costume designer, filmmaker, and tenured drama professor. They live in NY with their two boys.

Susan’s agent is the very fabulous Dan Conaway of Writers House.

Susan Henderson’s Specialties:

writing, editing, interviewing, mediating

Susan Henderson’s Experience

Author

HarperCollins Publishers

(Public Company; Publishing industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

My book, THE RUBY CUP, will be published by Harper Collins in September 2010.
Author and Curator

NPR

(Publishing industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Curator of NPR’s newest literary venture, DimeStories, produced by Jay Allison of This I Believe.
Blogger

LitPark.com

(Writing and Editing industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

LitPark is a literary playground for writers, artists, and anyone who feels at home there. It's where we vent, support, inspire, and share helpful tips about the business.

How does it work? Every 1st Monday is a Question of the Month, that Wednesday is an Interview, and that Friday my Monthly Wrap.

Guests of LitPark have included bestselling authors Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, Susan Straight, Kate Gale, David Morrell, Danielle Trussoni, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Barry Eisler, Bruce Benderson; The New Yorker Jerusalem correspondant Amy Wilentz; Zoetrope and Harcourt editor Adrienne Brodeur; CLMP director Jeff Lependorf; This American Life radio personality James Spring; literary agent, Dan Conaway; publicist Lauren Cerand; Ice Age production designer Brian McEntee; Pixar storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa; painter Suzan Woodruff, illustrator and art director Tommy Kane; political cartoonist Jimmy Margulies; songwriter Candice Night and Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.
Volunteer

We Are Family Foundation

(Publishing industry)

2006 — 2009 (3 years )

The We Are Family Foundation was founded by musician Nile Rodgers, and its mission is to educate people about mutual respect, understanding, and appreciation of cultural diversity. I help with whatever I'm asked to help with.
Blogger

Huffington Post and The Nervous Breakdown

(Publishing industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

It's an honor to write personal essays for these two popular sites. Topics have included James Frey, losing beauty, tree houses, and Monica Lewinsky moments.
Managing Editor

Night Train literary magazine

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years )

I worked with senior editor, Rusty Barnes, to select and edit stories as well as oversee staff and help create a vision for fundraising. Our fundraising efforts got us a half-page write-up in The New York Times, opening the article with this:

"Literary magazines are generally known for their stunning inability to turn a profit. Often proceeding with an optimistic lack of a business plan, their editors drum up just enough financial backing to publish a few times before the journal disappears, appreciated only by a small, rarefied and fickle audience. Then there's Night Train, devoted to keeping alive the waning art of short-story writing through a cunning marketing technique....."
Rape Crisis Counselor

Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR)

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years )

I offered individual and group therapy for adults, teens, and children who had been sexually abused. I also took suicide calls and offered training seminars to hotline volunteers. I wrote much of the literature they used for clients and for trainings.
Writer

ABC News (literacy campaign - interactive media program)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DIS; Broadcast Media industry)

1989 — 1992 (3 years )

While I was a graduate student at Vanderbilt Univeristy, I worked under the supervision of Ted Hasselbring to write passages on multiple reading levels for an interactive multi-media literacy program narrated by Hugh Downs.

Susan Henderson’s Education

Vanderbilt University

M.Ed , Human Development Counseling , 1989 — 1992
Carnegie Mellon University

B.A. , English - Creative Writing , 1985 — 1989

Activities and Societies:

taught English as a Second Language to visiting professors and foreign TAs
first place, Adamson Award, poetry - 1989
honorable mention, Adamson Award, fiction -1989
first place, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, personal essay - 1989
Washington-Lee High School

1981 — 1985