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Jennifer Morag Henderson
Jennifer Morag Henderson is a writer from the Scottish Highlands. Her main interest is in history and biography.
Jennifer's first book Josephine Tey: A Life is a biography of the Golden Age crime writer, and was a ‘Book of the Year’ in the Observer, Independent and Telegraph, and acclaimed by reviewers in the Wall Street Journal, TLS, Literary Review, and elsewhere. Jennifer is the first biographer of novelist and playwright Josephine Tey and has lectured and written extensively about Tey’s life, crime fiction and theatre work, and led the successful campaign to get a blue plaque for Josephine Tey in Tey’s home city of Inverness.
Jennifer's second book Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots was longlisted for the prestigious Highland Book Prize. Her newest book Jofrid Gunn combines biography with poetry, and has been described in reviews as ‘remarkable’, ‘beautiful’ and ‘powerful’.
Jennifer’s stories, articles, and poems have been widely published in magazines and newspapers, in places such as Northwords Now (where she is a Contributing Writer), Riptide (Two Ravens Press), The Dalhousie Review, Causeway/Cabhsair, Gutter, Poetry Scotland, by the BBC, in the Press and Journal, the National and elsewhere. Her work on the fascinating figure of Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill has been published in France, and by academic publisher Palgrave. Jennifer has also researched and written material for heritage sites, such as the Inverness Castle Experience.
Jennifer is an experienced lecturer, and has given talks at the British Library, the NLS, and at many book festivals including Wigtown and Bloody Scotland. She also gives talks and workshops for smaller writing/reading groups, e.g. at writing centre Moniack Mhor, in libraries and schools.
As a playwright, Jennifer has worked with the NTS, Play Pieces, and Eden Court Theatre. She edited literary magazine Random Acts of Writing from 2006-2010, and has worked in several different areas of the book trade, including bookselling, libraries and publishing.
Jennifer has degrees from the University of Glasgow and Dalhousie University (Canada), and studied French at l’Institut Français d’Écosse and at the Université de Caen. She is currently learning Faroese.