Joshua Henkin
Biography
Joshua Henkin
Joshua Henkin is
the author of the novel SWIMMING ACROSS THE HUDSON (Putnam, 1997),
which was named a Los Angeles Times notable book of the
year. His new novel, MATRIMONY, will be published by Pantheon in
October 2007. His short stories have been published in Glimmer
Train, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Yale Review,
Triquarterly, DoubleTake, The North American Review, The New
England Review, Boulevard, and elsewhere.
His fiction has been performed at Symphony Space and broadcast on
NPR's "Selected Shorts"; published in Spanish translation in
Habra Una Vez, an anthology of young North American
Writers; anthologized in 110 Stories: New York Writes After
September 11; and cited for distinction in Best American
Short Stories. He is the recipient of the James Fellowship for
the Novel, the Hopwood Award, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, and
a grant from the Michigan Council of the Arts. His essays and
reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The
Los Angeles Times Book Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, The
Boston Globe, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Christian Science
Monitor, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and
teaches in the creative writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College
and Brooklyn College, and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the
92nd Street Y.
Joshua Henkin
