Joshua henkin author biography

PERSONAL:

Born in New York, NY; son of Louis Henkin (a human rights scholar); children: two. Education:Harvard University, B.A., 1987; University of Michigan, M.F.A., 1993.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Brooklyn, NY. Agent—Lisa Bankoff, International Creative Management, 825 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10019. [email protected].

CAREER:

Fiction reader for a magazine in San Francisco, CA, during the late 1980s; Tikkun magazine, assistant editor, 1987-89; teacher of independent creative writing classes; freelance writer, c. 1993—; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, instructor in creative writing, beginning 1997; Unterberg Poetry Center, instructor in fiction writing, 1999—; Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, instructor in creative writing.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Thomas Hoopes Prize, 1987; PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, 1992; Playboy Fiction Prize, 1992; Roy W. Cowden Award in Creative Writing, 1992; Avery and Jules Hopwood Award for essay, and for short story, both