Eleanor Henderson

Eleanor Henderson

Assistant Professor, Department of Writing
Faculty, School of Humanities and Sciences

Specialty:Fiction Writing
Phone:(607) 274-3324
E-mail:ehenderson@ithaca.edu
Office:407 Smiddy Hall
Ithaca, NY 14850

I grew up in Florida, writing stories set in colder, more interesting, more mountainous locales, with trees that weren’t palms. As soon as I could, I left for Vermont, land of Robert Frost and Adirondack chairs. Later I landed in New York City, then in Virginia, where I taught at James Madison University for four years.  Up and down the east coast, I've written in coffee shops and cubicles; I began my first novel, Ten Thousand Saints (set in New York City and Vermont), in a palm-sized notebook on the subway, and it will be published this summer, nine years later.

I couldn’t be happier to have revised my way back to the northeast, where I live with my husband, Aaron, and my son, Nico. These days I work on a new novel in my office in Smiddy Hall, and when it’s not too cold, in an Adirondack chair in my backyard.

Areas

  • fiction writing
  • historical fiction
  • the short story cycle

Degrees

  • M.F.A. Fiction, University of Virginia, 2005
  • B.A. American Literature/Creative Writing, Middlebury College, 2001, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude

Some Publications

Books

  • Ten Thousand Saints, a novel forthcoming from HarperCollins/Ecco, June 2011

Short Stories

Essays

School of Humanities and Sciences  ·  201 Muller Center  ·  Ithaca College  ·  Ithaca, NY 14850  ·  (607) 274-3102  ·  Full Directory Listing