Samantha Henderson is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer and poet.
Samantha Henderson lives in Covina, southern California with her family, and works as a church secretary.[1][2][3][4]
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]
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]