Samantha Henderson Last updated March 15, 2025 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 ↑ "Samantha Henderson" . 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