Solstice contributing editor DeWitt Henry’s book, Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays, was longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays completes a trilogy-in-memoir with Sweet Dreams and Safe Suicide. DeWitt was the founding editor of Ploughshares. He has also published a novel, a story collection, and several anthologies. 

DeWitt’s essay on Seamus Heaney appeared in the Spring 2012 Issue of Solstice. He also spoke to Solstice about Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays.