Ploughshares, which DeWitt Henry directed for its first twenty years, and for which he received a Massachusetts Commonwealth Award in 1992, is regarded as one of the leading literary magazines in the country. Henry's novel, The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, won the inaugural Peter Taylor Prize. Jack Smith wrote: "The novel evokes in the reader a sense for the power of the heart and will to transform one's self--and to make claims on what's rightfully one's own." The same can be said for Safe Suicide (Red Hen Press, 2008). Henry is a professor at Emerson College in Boston. He has also edited five anthologies, including Sorrows Company: Writers on Loss and Grief and (with James Alan McPherson) Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men. He is working on a childhood memoir and novel.