Eleanor Henderson grew up in Florida and attended Middlebury College and the University of Virginia, where she earned her MFA. Her most recent book is the memoir Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage (Flatiron, 2021), which was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2021 by Vogue. She is also the author of two novels, The Twelve-Mile Straight (Ecco, 2017) and Ten Thousand Saints (Ecco, 2011), which was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and a finalist for the Award for First Fiction from The Los Angeles Times. It was also the basis for the movie adaptation 10,000 Saints starring Ethan Hawke.
Eleanor’s stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Agni, Ninth Letter, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Poets & Writers, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best American Short Stories. With Anna Solomon she is also co-editor of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers (FSG, 2014). A Professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College and a 2024 NYFA Fellow in Fiction, she serves on the executive board of Saoirse Pastures, a sanctuary for rescued farmed animals in Ithaca, NY.