Henson, Michael

Michael Henson was raised in Sidney, Ohio, and has worked as a schoolteacher in rural Appalachia, a farm hand, machine tender, and a house painter. But for most of his career he has alternated between work as a drug and alcohol counselor and a community organizer running a neighborhood community center, working on public school issues, and opposing environmental pollution in an urban Appalachian neighborhood. For nearly thirty years, he has served as an adjunct professor of English at Xavier. He earned degrees in English at Xavier University in Cincinnati and the University of Chicago. He serv...