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Background

Chipley, Florida

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in 1961 to J.F. and Nancy J. Henry, and spent her early years in Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville, Florida

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. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Political Science

Political science

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from St. Andrews Presbyterian College

St. Andrews Presbyterian College

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in 1982. She moved to Maine

Maine

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in 1983 to attend the University of Maine School of Law

University of Maine School of Law

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, from which she graduated with her JD

Juris Doctor

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degree in 1986.

Henry is an adjunct instructor of English and Humanities at Central Maine Community College

Central Maine Community College

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and Southern Maine Community College

Southern Maine Community College

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. She is also a practicing attorney

Lawyer

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, working primarily in the area of child advocacy

Child advocacy

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. Formerly, she has served as Assistant Attorney General of the State of Maine in the Department of Child Protection. She lives in Westbrook, Maine

Westbrook, Maine

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with her husband, physicist Dr. Harold Persing. The couple have three grown children.

Published works

Henry is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: from Sheltering Pines Press, Our Lady of Let’s All Sing (2007, ISBN #0-9776158-9-X), Who You Are (2008, ISBN 13#: 978-0-615-17555-3), and, from Moon Pie Press, "Sarx" (2010, ISBN #978-1-4507-0739-8). She is co-founder, with Alice N. Persons

Alice N. Persons

Alice Persons is an American poet.She grew up in the Army and graduated from high school in Arlington, Virginia. She has a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Oregon....

, of Moon Pie Press, and served as co-editor from its founding until 2005.

Henry is also the author of two chapbook

Chapbook

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s from Musclehead Press, Anything Can Happen (2001) and Hard (2003); two chapbooks from Moon Pie Press, Eros Ion (2004) and Europe on $5 a Day (2005, ISBN 0-9765166-2-4). Her first chapbook, Brie Fly, is now out-of-print.

Her work has been anthologized in Grace Notes (Sheltering Pines Press, 2002), Infini Tea (Sheltering Pines Press, 2004); Velvet Avalanche ([Satjah Projects], 2005); Fierce With Reality (Just Write Books, 2006) ISBN: 978-0-9788628-0-0, and A Sense of Place, (Bay River Press, 2002, ISBN 0-9721173-0-X) as well as the first Moon Pie Press anthology, A Moxie and a Moon Pie (2005 ISBN 0-9769929-1-4). Henry’s poems have been featured by Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor

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on The Writer's Almanac

The Writer's Almanac

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.

She has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize

Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....

, and has served as an associate editor of the literary journal The Café Review.

External links

“Nancy Henry: new book of poems”; Lawless, Gary (blog, 2008) Review of “Who You Are”

http://gulfofmainebooks.blogspot.com/2008/03/nancy-henry-new-book-of-poems.html

Review of “Eros/Ion”, Mhyana, Jalina, (2005)

http://www.rocksaltplum.com/RSPWinter2005/NancyAHenry-BookReview.html

“Our Lady of Let’s All Sing”; Hersom, Claire (2007)

http://www.rattle.com/ereviews/henrynancy.htm

“Gathering the Evidence: Hard” Bookey, Ted (2003)

http://www.poetrybay.com/summer2003/hard.html

Review of “Hard”, Palmisano, Frank III (2003)

http://www.mainstreetrag.com/MSRReviews03.html#anchor211959

Review of “Hard”, Metzger, Joyce (2003)

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“Burning the Want Ads”, “Jung’s Motel”, “A Poet’s Wedding Vows”, “Her Last Postcard”, “The Wednesday Night Poetry Society”, “Motor Court Retreat”, “Darla Learns to Say ‘Love’”, “Eileen”, “Barter”, “Worm Theology”, “The Tree-Climber’s Mother”, “1964”, “Gusto”, “Re-incarnate”, “Terminus”, “Baby’s First Bath”, “To a Nameless Child”, “Wax”, “Orientation”, “Showing Up”, “Postcard From Earth”, “Death of the Old Dog” http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/28/henry.html

“Bulletin” and “Sarx” http://www.rocksaltplum.com/RSPWinter2005/NancyAHenry-TwoPoems.html

“Jaffa Psalm”

http://www.rocksaltplum.com/RSPSpring2007/NancyHenryPoem.html

“Sonora” http://www.rocksaltplum.com/Issue1-December2003/NancyAHenrySonora.html

“Keys” http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/09/03/#wednesday

“People Who Take Care”

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2006/02/06/index.html#saturday

“Certain Things”, “To The Man on the Corner”, “Resignation”, “Cedar Key, 1975”

http://www.plumrubyreview.com/apr04/poetry/henry.htm

“We Clean Out Your Refrigerator After the Funeral”

http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/creativeashpress/henry33.htm&date=2009-10-25+17:56:00

“Re-evaluation After An Ordinary Miracle” http://fp.tcsn.net/jackie/nancy_henry.htm

“Instruction” and “Remembrance Day”

http://www.poetrybay.com/summer2003/nancyhenry.html

“A Proposition”

http://www.maineliterature.org/mainepoets-p5.html

“A Few Hollow Seconds Speaking to Your Machine”

http://www.sidewalkpress.net/carnelian/Past/jul2005.html#Spacer7

“What She Wants” and “How the Wind Knows There are Tears in Our Jam”

http://www.melicreview.com/archive/iss18/nahenry.html

“Afterthought” and “This Book of Scars”

http://www.tryst3.com/issue7/henry1.html

“So Really, Why Not?”

http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=362

“Mae” and “Valedictory, 1977”

http://www.2river.org/2RView/11_4/poems/henry.html

“Passage”

http://www.poetryrepairs.com/v03/090.html

“Death of the Old Dog”

http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/creativeashpress/poetspage52.htm%23Nancy%2520Henry&date=2009-10-25+17:56:04

“At the Mirror”, “Epiphany”, “Saturday Morning”, “Snow Day”

http://aroostookreview.umfk.maine.edu/poetry/henry.htm

“Sharon, Rose of”

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“The Shadow Garden”

http://www.sundress.net/sometimescity/v3/1/nhenry.html

“Perseids”

http://www.niederngasse.com/magazine/poetry/henry.html

“Custody”, “Dusk, I-95”, and “In Mid-Summer”

http://www.megaera.org/Megaera/fall03/index.html

“Haunt”

http://www.poetryrepairs.com/v04/008.html

“On the Edge of the Village”

http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/content/cb.asp?cbid=2399

“Melbourne Beach, 1965”

http://www.fairfieldreview.org/fairfield/fairrevw.nsf/f146883083505a1385256485000d91cd/5d332364cf415a61852570830000dca1!OpenDocument

“Twenty-One”, “Nineteen”

http://www.poetrybay.com/summer2002/twentyone.htm

“Church Supper”

http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=8786

“Men I’ve Dated in Random Order”

http://www.epicentermagazine.org/contributors/random.htm

“Last Seen at the Fairhaven Motor Court, Room 36”

http://www.theaurorareview.com/magazine/lastseen.html

“News”

http://staff.jccc.edu/schmeer/pm/pdfs/PM_19.pdf

“Plan B”, “Matins” http://www.threecandles.org/archive/nhenry.html

http://www.yankton.net/stories/090807/com_197880413.shtml
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