Barbara Henning

|birth_place=Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |occupation= |education=East Detroit High School
Wayne State University (MA) |genre=Fiction |website= }} Barbara Henning (born October 26, 1948) is an American poet and fiction writer. She is the author of eight books of poetry, four novels and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. Her recent novelized biography of her mother, ''Ferne, a Detroit Story,'' was named by the Library of Michigan as a Notable Book of 2023. She is also the editor of a collection of interviews, [''Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Sleeping with the Dictionary and Other Works''] and ''The Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins''. Her work has been published in numerous journals. Some recent books of poetry and prose are ''Digigram'' (United Artists Books 2020); a novel, ''Just Like That'' (Spuyten Duyvil 2018); and a conceptual project, a collection of sonnets composed from 999 passages from 999 books in her collection, entitled ''My Autobiography'' (United Artists Books, 2007). ''Prompt Book: Experiments in Poetry and Fiction'' is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil 2020). ''Poets on the Road, a Blog,'' soon to be released by City Point Press, celebrates Henning and Maureen Owen's extensive reading road trip in 2018 across the USA. Provided by Wikipedia