Samantha Henderson

Samantha Henderson is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet.

Personal life

Samantha Henderson lives in Covina, southern California with her family, and works as a church secretary.[1][2][3][4]

Writing career

Henderson is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and has published numerous short stories, including "Bottles" (first published in Realms of Fantasy) which was made into a short film in 2010.[5] She has been published in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Lone Star Stories, Weird Tales and The Shantytown Anomaly.[3][4] Her novel, Heaven's Bones (a Ravenloft tie-in) was published in September 2008.[6] Henderson had a story published in the original anthology of werewolf stories, Running With the Pack.[7]

As a participant in Launch Pad, she developed a fourth-grade science class astronomy unit.[8] She is treasurer of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.[9][5]

Awards and recognition

Her short story "Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died" was included in Prime Books' Fantasy: the Best of the Year for 2006.[10] In 2009, she won second place in the Rhysling Awards in the long and short poem categories with "Spell" and "Hungry: Some Ghost Stories".[11] Her Ravenloft novel "Heaven's Bones" was one of the genre-related nominees for "Best Speculative Fiction Novel: Original" at the 2009 Scribe Awards.[12] The poem "In the Astronaut Asylum", by Kendall Evans and Henderson won first place in the "Long Poem" category at the 2010 Rhysling Awards,[13] and was one of the finalists at the 2010 Nebula Awards.[14][15] Her poetry collection "The House of Forever" won second place in the "Best Chapbook" category at the 2013 Elgin Awards.[16]

Short fiction

• "Dead Letter," Strange Horizons, March 2003
• "Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died," The Fortean Bureau, March 2005[17][18]
• ""Manuscript Found Written in the Paw Prints of a Stoat", 2005[19]
• "The Tailor and the Fairy", 2005[20]
• "Scales", 2005[21]
• "Route Nine", 2006[22]
• "Girl with the Lute", 2006[23]
• "Cinderella Suicide," Strange Horizons, May 2006,[24] also appeared in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk[25]
• "Wild Copper", 2006[26][27]
• "Honey Mouth", 2006[28]
• "Such a Lovely Shade of Green" Fantasy Magazine, December 2006[29]
• "Histories", 2006[30]
• "Starry Night", 2007[31]
• "Bottles" Realms of Fantasy, April 2007
• "Shallot", 2007[32]
• "Curse" Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2007[33]
• "Pretty Mary"[34]
• "Garkain" Fantasy Magazine, April 2009
• "East of Chula Vista", 2009, Abyss and Apex, Issue 29
• "The Red Bride", 2010[35][36]
• "Escaping Salvation", 2011[37][38]
• "Beside Calais", 2012[39][40]
• "Everything You Were Looking For", 2012[41]
• "Your Fairy Is Serenity Elfsong", 2013[42]
• "My Generations Shall Praise", 2016[43][44]
• "The Black Hole in Auntie Sutra's Handbag"[45]

References

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6. http://www.darkfantasy.org/fantasy/2009/04/come-from-a-nameless-island-samantha-henderson/
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