Gretchen HendersonTrained as a classical vocalist and historian, Gretchen E. Henderson's literary works engage music and the visual arts. Her first book, Galerie de Difformité, is structured as an art catalogue and received the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging riter's Prize from &NOW Books (2011). Other forthcoming works include a musically-structured collection of fiction, The House Enters the Street (Starcherone Books), and a cartographic poetry chapbook, Wreckage: By Land & By Sea (Dancing Girl Press). Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have been published in a range of journals and anthologies, including The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, DENVER QUARTERLY, Black Warrior Review, and The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. Gretchen is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, where she invites participation in the collaborative deformation of her Galerie de Difformité. Read More Read Less