Henry Henkel was born in 1955 and grew up in Seaford, New York, a small town on the South Shore of Long Island. After a life in the suburban public school system, Henry graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo where he began to write short stories. Henry has a Master's Degree in Literature from New York University and spent three years as chairman of the English department at a New York private school. He currently works in the financial services industry. Henry lives with his wife and four children in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. He is at work on his second collection of