Copyright, Marion EttlingerDeborah Henry recently wrote a screenplay based on her critically acclaimed novel, The Whipping Club, which received a Kirkusstarred review, appeared on Kirkus Reviews’ Best of 2012 list, praise from Publisher’s Weekly and selected for Oprah’s Summer Reading List. She holds an MFA from Fairfield University. Her first short story was published in the Copperfield Review, was a historical fiction finalist for Solander Magazine and was long listed in the Fish Short Story Prize. She has been an expert guest on radio programs as well as on NBC, FOX and CBS television in top markets nationally. An active member of The Academy of American Poets, a patron of the Irish Arts Center in New York, she recently founded the Deborah Henry Scholarship Fund for the Abroad Writers Conference in Dublin. She has traveled extensively in Ireland and divides her time between New York and New England.
She has recently completed her second novel and her first children’s book, WATCH HER SHINE, to be published in the first instance in Uganda and Kenya, with proceeds benefitting the nonprofit Bambino Life Foundation which helps girls reach their goals as well as disadvantaged children.