Barbara Henning

Born in Detroit in 1948, Barbara Henning moved to New York City with her two children in 1984. After a few interim years in Tucson and Mysore, India, she returned to New York in 2010, presently living in Brooklyn. Her most recent book is, Ferne, a Detroit Story, a hybrid, novelized story of her mother’s life (Spuyten Duyvil 2022). Forthcoming is Poets on the Road (with Maureen Owen, City Point Press). Barbara is a poet who also writes fiction—four novels, Just Like That (SD), Black Lace (SD), You Me and the Insects (SD), and Thirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVox); eight full length collections of poetry, Digigram (United Artists Books, 2020), A Day Like Today (Negative Capability), A Swift Passage (Quale), Cities & Memory (Chax Press), My Autobiography (UAB), Detective Sentences (SD), Love Makes Thinking Dark (UAB) and Smoking in the Twilight Bar (UAB); She is also the editor of The Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins (BV), Looking Up Harryette Mullen (Belladonna) and the editor/writer of Prompt Book: Experiments for Writing Poetry and Fiction (SD). She was the editor of the poetry/art journal, Long News: In the Short Century (1990-1995). As a long-time yoga practitioner, having lived and studied in Mysore, India with Shankaranarayana Jois, she brings this knowledge and discipline to her writing and her teaching at Naropa University (2006-2014) and Long Island University where she is Professor Emerita. Born in Detroit, she presently lives in Brooklyn and teaches for writers.com. She can be found reading her work on the PennSound and more information is available on her website www.barbarahenning.com