William Henderson has written for local and national newspapers and magazines, including the Advocate; the Boston Globe; the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Stork, an Emerson College publication; Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure; Euonia Review (forthcoming in June 2011); Hippocampus Magazine (forthcoming); Annalemma Magazine (forthcoming); Curbside Quotidian; How I met …, an online collection of essays detailing intersections, crashes, and other ways we meet people; Sea Giraffe (from which he was awarded the Martius Prize in Nonfiction); and the New England Blade (formerly In Newsweekly), where he served as editor. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism & Communications from the University of Florida, and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Emerson College, where he studied creative non-fiction. He earned a Hearst Award in profile writing in 1998, and various awards from the Washington Press Association, Florida Press Association, and the New England Press Association. Currently, he works as a freelance writer, editor, and copyeditor, and is a full-time father to his children, Avery and Aurora. He is working on a memoir, House of Cards. He can be reached on Twitter @Avesdad, and through his blog, HendersonHouseofCards.wordpress.com.
- The mock turtle’s story by William Henderson
