William Haywood Henderson

Teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop

William Haywood Henderson was born in Syracuse, New York, grew up in Colorado, and earned a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley. He held a variety of jobs, including chef, copyeditor, technical writer, landscape gardener, and caretaker on a ranch in Wyoming, before earning a degree in creative writing from Brown University. He attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing. He is the author of three novels: Native, The Rest of the Earth, and Augusta Locke. He has taught creative writing at Brown, Harvard, and the University of Colorado at Denver, and currently he is on the MFA faculty at Ashland University in Ohio. At Lighthouse, he directs the Book Project and teaches novel workshops.