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American writer

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.

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. She has been published in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Lone Star Stories, Weird Tales and The Shantytown Anomaly. Her novel, Heaven's Bones (a Ravenloft tie-in) was published in September 2008. Henderson had a story published in the original anthology of werewolf stories, Running With the Pack.

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

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. In 2009, she won second place in the Rhysling Awards in the long and short poem categories with "Spell" and "Hungry: Some Ghost Stories". Her Ravenloft novel "Heaven's Bones" was one of the genre-related nominees for "Best Speculative Fiction Novel: Original" at the 2009 Scribe Awards. The poem "In the Astronaut Asylum", by Kendall Evans and Henderson won first place in the "Long Poem" category at the 2010 Rhysling Awards, and was one of the finalists at the 2010 Nebula Awards. Her poetry collection "The House of Forever" won second place in the "Best Chapbook" category at the 2013 Elgin Awards.

Short fiction

  • "Dead Letter," Strange Horizons, March 2003
  • "Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died," The Fortean Bureau, March 2005
  • ""Manuscript Found Written in the Paw Prints of a Stoat", 2005
  • "The Tailor and the Fairy", 2005
  • "Scales", 2005
  • "Route Nine", 2006
  • "Girl with the Lute", 2006
  • "Cinderella Suicide," Strange Horizons, May 2006, also appeared in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
  • "Wild Copper", 2006
  • "Honey Mouth", 2006
  • "Such a Lovely Shade of Green" Fantasy Magazine, December 2006
  • "Histories", 2006
  • "Starry Night", 2007
  • "Bottles" Realms of Fantasy, April 2007
  • "Shallot", 2007
  • "Curse" Clarkesworld Magazine, December 2007
  • "Pretty Mary"
  • "Garkain" Fantasy Magazine, April 2009
  • "East of Chula Vista", 2009, Abyss and Apex, Issue 29
  • "The Red Bride", 2010
  • "Escaping Salvation", 2011
  • "Beside Calais", 2012
  • "Everything You Were Looking For", 2012
  • "Your Fairy Is Serenity Elfsong", 2013
  • "My Generations Shall Praise", 2016
  • "The Black Hole in Auntie Sutra's Handbag"

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