MFA Candidate

Fiction

Contact Information

Email: ghenke1@unm.edu
Office Location: Humanities 218

Biography

Gwyneth Henke (she/her) is a fiction writer from Saint Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in religious studies and creative writing and worked in interfaith dialogue before pursuing her MFA at UNM. Her fiction explores conversion, faith, doubt, miracles, storytelling, shame, and desire, usually in the Midwest or Italy. In her reading life, she loves Haruki Murakami, Elena Ferrante, Mieko Kawakami, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Joan Didion.