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Susan Henderson, LitPark
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SUSAN HENDERSON is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets award and a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. She recently helped judge the "20-Minute Stories Contest" at McSweeney's. Her work has appeared in 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), and Not Quite What I Was Planning (HarperPerennial, 2008). 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 professor. They live in NY with their two boys.
   
Today on LitPark.com: LitPark will have a new Question of the Month on Monday. I'll be reading with Amy Hempel, Edith Pearlman and some other very fine writers on July 12th at the KGB bar in NYC. Hope you can make it. Still working on my book edits. Doing a reading July 12th at the KGB bar to launch the new NPR show. More on that soon-ish. In the meantime, June's LitPark features discussions about birth and an interview with Xujun Eberlein and her collection of stories set in China's Cultural Revolution.
Not sure how LitPark works?
LitPark Question of the Month - Best-selling authors and unpublished writers chime in on these topics:
Books and Film * Dice * Rejection * Masks * Driving * Six Words * Tomorrow is THE LIAR'S DIARY Blog Day * Public Transportation * Clown * Loss (and CONTEST ALERT) * 2008 * Teacher * Murder * Cry * Guts * Travel * Costume * Culture * Kiddo * Love * Tattoos * Whatcha Been Up To, Friends? * Phobias * Near-Death Experience * Where? * Mistakes * Writer Communities * Hope * Now What? * Independent Press * Generosity * Nice! * Zodiac * Style * Professional Jealousy * AWP * Controversy * Hair * 80s * Luck * Collaboration * The Pitch * Vacation * Balancing Art and Family * Fantasy and Science Fiction * The Book Tour * Snippets * Telling Mom * Setting * High School Secrets * Your Hidden Side * Out-of-the-Box * Aliases * Obsession * Self-Doubt * Risks of Truth-Telling * 9-11 * Your Space
LitPark Interviews - Don't miss my favorite drag queen, the history of Neil Gaiman's hair, or my smokin' book cover designer, Tommy Kane, who is responsible for these:
    
3 Trees * 60 Writers Quiz * Adrienne Brodeur * Alexander Chee * Amy Bryant * Amy Wallen * Amy Wilentz * Angela Stubbs * Anthony Marais * Aquadisiac * Aurelio O'Brien * Bach-Boy Henderson * Backspace * Bonnie Glover * Brad Listi * Brian McEntee * Bridgett Davis * Bruce Bauman * Bruce Benderson * Buck Lewis * Cameron McGill * Candice Night * Carrie Hoffman * Chuck Collins * Claire Cameron * CLMP * Corey Mesler * Create Now! * Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi * Daniel Handler * Danielle Trussoni * Danny Gregory * Dan Passamaneck * Daryl Darko * David Habbin * Douglas Preston * Dr. Dot * Elizabeth Crane * Ellen Meister * Emily Maguire * Enrico Casarosa * Eric Spitznagel * FAWM (Songwriters) * Frank Daniels * Gerard Jones * Gina Frangello * Green-Hand Henderson * Greg Downs * Halloween Special * Harper Perennial Lit Chicks * Heather McElhatton * Heather O'Neill * Heather Pena * Hillary Carlip * James Brady * James Spring * Jeff Swanson * Jeffrey Lependorf * Jessica Brilliant Keener * Jill Gurr * Jim Tomlinson * John Warner * Jolene Siana * Jordan Rosenfeld * Josh Kilmer-Purcell * Joy Nicholson * Karen Dionne * Kate Gale * Kelly Braffet * Kevin Dolgin * Kevin Sampsell * Kimberlee Auerbach * Laura Benedict * Lauren Baratz-Logsted * Lauren Cerand * Lemony Snicket * Lori Oliva * Marcy Dermansky * Maria Dahvana Headley * Michael Stusser * Mikel K Poet * Mom * Monica Drake * Mr. Henderson * Neil Gaiman * Norman Mallory * Olympia Vernon * Oronte Churm * Owen King * Pasha Malla * Patry Francis * Paul Green * Pearl Harbor Pop Pop * Peter de Seve * Pia Z. Ehrhardt * Pierre Berg * Porochista Khakpour * Rachel Resnick * Ritchie Blackmore * Robert Westfield * Robin Lerner * Robin Slick * Ron Currie, Jr. * Ronnie Del Carmen * Roy Kesey * Samantha Dunn * Sarah Hall * Sci-Fi Humorists * Scott Snyder * Seth Greenland * Shawn Decker * Smith Magazine * Stephanie Lessing * Steve Erickson * Susan Henderson * Susan Straight * Suzan Woodruff * Tao Lin * Terry Bain * THE LIAR'S DIARY Blog Day * The Man Eating Neil Gaiman * The Very Hot Jews * Thom Didato * Tish Cohen * Todd Zuniga * Tom Jackson * Tommy Kane * Watch Josh! * Wayne Yang * Writer's Relief * You
LitPark Monthly Wrap - My wrap-ups have led to discussions about patrol camp, hitchhiking, and peeing on apples. Have a look:
You Know I'm Busy When I Can't Even Come up with a Title * Rejected But Not Defeated * This Is Not Actually Copping Out * Creative Writers, Creative Drivers * We Can Say a Lot in Six Words * Staggering Generosity * Penn Station * Some Fabulous News * The Flip-Side of Loss * Making a Difference in 2008 * Our Favorite Teachers * The Murders We Remember * The Shoulders We Cry On * We Are Gutsy * Oh, the Places We Go * Playing Dress Up * Our Ancestry * Our Toys * How We Love * The Ways We Are Marked * We've Been Busy * Summer Vacation '07 * Close Calls * Where We Live * Mistakes that Changed Us * Community * Hopeful * Taking Our Next Steps * Independent Streaks * The Tysha Effect * Joy and Pain * Our Signs * We Got Style * We Want a Turn * How We Make Use of Conferences * Our Controversies * Authors and their Hair * Our Lives in the 80s * Just Our Luck * Group Effort * Our 2 Sentences * How We Balance Our Time * Our Favorite Spec Fiction * Introverts at the Microphone * Our Unfinished Brilliance * Our Mothers * Places that Capture Us * Our High School Days * Our Hidden Selves * We Don't Like Boxes * Our Disguises * Our Obsessions * Pummeling Ourselves * Who Owns Our Truths? * Our Shared Trauma * My Space, Your Space
You do not need to be a writer to play at LitPark. All book lovers, artists, directors, singers and people who love to talk about the creative process are welcome. Stop by and join the conversation!
I have video of my kids horsing around at open mic over on YouTube. You can click to see them playing Queen, Clapton, The Beatles, The Who, and Pink Floyd. Enjoy!
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Schooling:
Carnegie Mellon University (B.A.)
Vanderbilt University (M.Ed)
Work:
Former managing editor, Night Train literary magazine.
Former writer for ABC News Multi-Media Literacy project.
Former crisis counselor at Pittsburgh Action Against Rape.
Radio and podcasts:
Podcast interview:
podcast discussion between me and Paul A. Toth re: truth and memoir
(find podcast #23, Feb. 1, 2006, then click on the mp3 link)
Interview, NPR (KRCB):
Listen to my NPR (KRCB) Interview, 2004 about the unique funding strategy used at Night Train literary magazine. (WARNING: this takes a couple of minutes to download; turn the sound up while you wait.)
Story reading, NPR (KRCB):
My Christmas story "The Kid Has a Letter for Santa" was read on National Public Radio (KRCB ) on Dec. 15 as part of a holiday special.
Interviews:
Eight Diagrams
The Publishing Spot
David Niall Wilson interviews me about my writing themes, my blog, and more
Mark Pritchard interviews me for his series called What Are You Working On?
Guest Speaker at BACKSPACE.
2004 Interview with SmokeLong Quarterly with comments on Googling
Another 2004 Interview with SmokeLong Quarterly with comments on my trip to China
Some Past Readings:
Cape Town, South Africa, Off-the-Wall, 2006 - with Liesl Jobson, Ken Barris, Mike Cope.
NYC, The Back Room, 2006 - with Pasha Malla, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Grant Bailie, Jim Nichols, Roy Kesey, Darlin' Neal, Todd Zuniga, Gail Siegel, Kevin Dolgin, Claudia Smith, Lindsay Brandon Hunter.
NYC, Happy Ending bar, 2006 - with Bruce Bauman.
NYC, Happy Ending bar, 2005 - with Todd Zuniga, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Rose Gowen, Jim Ruland, John Leary, Dave Barringer.
Petaluma, CA - Zebulon's Lounge, 2005 - with Michelle Richmond, Bruce Bauman, Dave Fromm, Jordan Rosenfeld
NYC - Galapagos Art Space, 2005 - with Felicia Sullivan and Whitney Pastorek
NYC - An Evening with Opium Magazine, 2005 - with Pasha Malla, Todd Zuniga, Mike Sacks, Pia Z. Ehrhardt
NYC - Cornelia Street Cafe, 2004 - with Todd Zuniga
Kings Park, NY, Union Square Tavern, 2004 - with John Warner, John Leary, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Jeff Landon, Terry Bain, Paul A. Toth
PHILADELPHIA - 215 Festival, 2004 - with Michelle Orange, Samantha Hunt, Todd Pruzan, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Jim Hanas, Leonard Pierce, Dan Kennedy
NIGHT TRAIN literary magazine in the NY TIMES
As managing editor of Night Train, and together with marketing manager Tom Jackson, we created a unique way to fund the magazine that received quite a lot of buzz. Here's an excerpt from a half-page article on our work in the NY Times:
KINGS PARK CATCHES THE IMAGINATION OF A LITERARY JOURNAL
By Julia C. Mead
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......
My favorite books at the moment:
Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son , Tim O`Brien, The Things They Carried, Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow, Jim Daniels, Detroit Tales, Homer (Fagles translation), The Iliad , and Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt.
My soccer team (some of them):
me, Ritchie Blackmore, Candice Night, Kathy, Mr. Henderson, Kenny Machin, John Rose
       
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