Anna Farro Henderson

Writer, Scientist, Policy Expert

Publications

Published Essays
In Her Words
My Last Conversation with a Climate Leader Before Her Political Assassination		Orion 2025
Book Review: Meltdown by Sarah BoonScience 2025
Gargoyles, gophers and other magical beings in the People’s HouseMinnPost 2024
Craft and Creative Process: Loosen Science Writing From Technical GroovesBrevity 2023
The Irrational Logic of Our Bodies on the LandscapeRaritan Quarterly, Winter 2023
Il Nocciolo De PescaRiver Teeth
October 2022
Writing in the AnthropoceneBrevity Blog
July 2022
Thanks for Lobbying Our Office  (Reading in front of the U.S. Capitol)No Contact, 2022 
Nourishing my Novel with Bike TiresLoft Literary Center Blog, 2022
Fuck Carpe DiemIdentity Theory, 2021
Packing for an Overnight at the State CapitolCleaver Magazine 
Issue 35,  2021
Whatever the Discomfort, Find BeautyWater~Stone Review, Volume 24, Fall 2021
It Becomes a Question: A Conversation with Jericho BrownPunctuate, 2019
View From the Lactation Room at the White HouseRiver Teeth,
2017
A Response to Jamie Zvirzdin’s ‘Observations of a Science Editor’Kenyon Review Blog, 2016
SpartinaKenyon Review,  2016
How Strangers Form Constellations That Make Sense of the WorldThe Rumpus,  2015
Amongst GiantsThe Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review,  2014
Saying Yes to the MountainThe Common, Issue 5, 2013
From Scientist to AnimalSeneca Review, 
Spring/Fall Vol. 41, 2012
Published Fiction
Blueprint for EscapeNew Ohio Review
2023
Chiara, ChiaraTerrain.org 
Winter 2023
Out Stealing FlowersTerrain.org
Winter 2022
GubbioBellingham Review Issue 76, 2018
Jesus TreeThe Normal School April 2016
Flock of BirdsWater Stone Review, Vol 17, 2014

Awards

Foreword INDIES Winner2024
Minnesota Book Award Nominee Nominee 2024-2025
Minnesota State Arts Board GrantWinner 2024
The Jake Adam York PrizeFinalist 2024
Terrain.org Fiction Story Contest Winner, Chiara- ChiaraWinner 2023
judged by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Everwood Farmstead Writing ResidencyWinner 2022
Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and Masters WorkshopSemi-finalist 2021. Finalist 2023
Excellence in Teaching Fellowship at Madeline Island School of the ArtsWinner, 2021
The Nan Snow Emerging Writers AwardWinner, 2020
Bellingham Review Annie Dillard Award for Creative NonfictionFinalist, 2020
Disquiet Literary ContestLonglist, 2020
Minnesota State Art Board GrantWinner, 2019
Bush FellowshipFinalist, 2019
Space Ryder FarmSemi-Finalist, 2019
Loft Literary Center, Mentor Series Award in FictionWinner, 2010
Howard Hughes Science Writing FellowshipBrown University, Winner, 2003
Casey Shearer Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction,Brown University, Honorable Mention, 2002

Peer-Reviewed Articles

I haven’t taken the time to put these in…