Susan Henderson

Current

• Author at St. Martin's Press
• Blogger at LitPark.com

Past

• 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

Recommended

7 people have recommended Susan

Connections

112 connections

Industry

Publishing

Websites

• My Blog
• MySpace

Susan Henderson’s Summary

My still-untitled novel will be published by St. Martin's Press in spring of '09. I also blog for Huffington Post and my own website, LitPark.com, where I feature a question of the week, interviews with writers and artists, and a weekly wrap. Interviews have included author Neil Gaiman, The New Yorker cover artist Peter de Seve, and filmmaker Buck Lewis.

My work has been featured in Amazon Shorts (Pushcart nomination, 2006), Arkansas Review (Pushcart nomination, 2004), Zoetrope, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Other Voices, among other magazines, as well as in The Future Dictionary of America (McSweeney's Press, 2004), Not Quite What I Was Planning (HarperPerennial, 2008), and The Best American Non-Required Reading (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

My husband is a costume designer, filmmaker, and tenured professor. We live in NY with our two boys.

Susan Henderson’s Specialties:

writing, editing, interviewing, mediating

Susan Henderson’s Experience

• Author

  St. Martin's Press

  (Public Company; Publishing industry)

  2007 — Present (1 year)

  My still-untitled novel, to be published by St. Martin's Press in spring of '09, is about a mother who goes missing and her daughter who finds her a year later, living in a secret room in her basement. My editor is Regina Scarpa. I sold this book without an agent, but now I'm represented by the coolest, funniest, most awesome agent in the business.

• Blogger

  LitPark.com

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2006 — Present (2 years)

  LitPark is a literary playground for writers, artists, and anyone who feels at home here. My hope is that the topics and the community here will offer inspiration, support, a place to vent and gain helpful tips about the business.
  
  Every Monday is a Question of the Week, every Wednesday an Interview, and every Friday my Weekly Wrap.
  
  Former and future guests: authors Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, Owen King, Kate Gale, Danielle Trussoni, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Tish Cohen, 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; 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 guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.

• 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; 1-10 employees; 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 that was 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

Additional Information

Susan Henderson’s Websites:

• My Blog
• MySpace

Susan Henderson’s Groups:

Obama '08

•    Carnegie Mellon Alumni member
•    Obama for America member

Susan Henderson’s Honors:

Academy of American Poets Award
Pushcart Prize (nominated twice)

Susan Henderson’s Contact Settings

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