Samantha_Henderson

Samantha Henderson

Samantha Henderson

American writer

Samantha Henderson is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet.

Personal life

Samantha Henderson lives in southern California.[1] She has a daughter.[2] She lives in Covina.[3] She is a church secretary.[4]

Career

Samantha Henderson has been published in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Lone Star Stories, Weird Tales and The Shantytown Anomaly.[3][4]

She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and has published numerous short stories, including the story "Bottles" (first published in Realms of Fantasy) which is being made into a short film.[5]

Her novel, Heaven's Bones (a Ravenloft tie-in) was published in September 2008.[6]

She is the treasurer of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.[7][5]

She had a story published in the original anthology of werewolf stories, Running With the Pack.[8]

As a participant in Launch Pad, she developed a fourth-grade science class astronomy unit.[9]

Awards and recognition

Her short story "Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died" was selected for inclusion in Prime Books' Fantasy: the Best of the Year for 2006.[10]

Samantha Henderson won a second place Rhysling Award in 2009 in each of the long and short poem categories ("Spell" for the short poem, and "Hungry: Some Ghost Stories" for the long poem).[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 Samantha 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

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