Eleanor Henderson’s nonfiction has appeared in Poets & Writers, where she was a contributing editor, and Virginia Quarterly Review, where she chairs the fiction board. Her fiction has appeared in AGNI, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, South Carolina Review, and Columbia. She received an MFA from the University of Virginia and is assistant professor at James Madison University. (updated 10/2008)

Her AGNI story “The Farms” was chosen for The Best American Short Stories 2009.