Smith Henderson

Smith Henderson is the recipient of the 2011 PEN Emerging Writer Winner (in fiction). He was a 2011 Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University, a 2011 Pushcart Prize winner and a Michener Center for Writers Fellow. He currently works at the Wieden + Kennedy advertising agency and wrote Chrysler’s Emmy-nominated ‘Halftime in America’ commercial featuring Clint Eastwood for the 2012 Super Bowl. His feature film, Dance with the One, was a Narrative Competition Nominee at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. Henderson’s short story manuscript was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award and he was a two-time finalist for the University of Texas Keene Prize, the world’s largest student literary prize. His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, One Story, New Orleans Review, Makeout Creek, and Witness. He has worked as a prison guard and social worker, experiences which informed his first novel Fourth of July Creek, set in his native Montana.