Patricia Henley’s fifth collection of short stories, Apple & Palm, is forthcoming from
Cornerstone Press in 2026. She is the author of three novels, five collections of stories,
two chapbooks of poetry, and a stage play. Her first novel, Hummingbird House, was a
finalist for The National Book Award and The New Yorker Fiction Prize. Haywire Books
published a 20th Anniversary Edition of Hummingbird House in November, 2019. Her
short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Boston Globe Sunday
Magazine, and other journals. Her first collection of stories, Friday Night at Silver Star
(Graywolf), won the Montana First Book Award. Her work has been anthologized in Best
American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Circle of Women, The Last Best
Place, and other anthologies. For 26 years she taught in the MFA Program in Creative
Writing at Purdue University. She teaches a monthly Zoom workshop for women writers
and lives in Kingston, Washington.
