Dewitt Henry is a Professor at Emerson College and the founding editor of Ploughshares (for which he won a Commonwealth Award in 1992). He has authored The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts (winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel) and two memoirs, Safe Suicide: Narratives, Essays, and Meditations and Sweet Dreams: A Family History; he has also edited five anthologies, including Sorrow’s Company: Writers on Loss and Grief.
