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Smith Henderson '98

Smith Henderson (Photo by Rebecca Calavan)

Smith Henderson ’98, Portland, Ore., published his debut novel, Fourth of July Creek, this year. An advertising copywriter at Wieden+Kennedy in Portland, Smith cowrote Halftime in America, an Emmy-nominated Chrysler ad starring Clint Eastwood that aired during the 2012 Super Bowl. A Montana native, Smith majored in classics at UM and later worked at a group home for children in Missoula, worked in internal corporate communications for Apple, and wrote for the chancellor’s office at the University of Texas.

He was the 2011 Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University, a 2011 Pushcart Prize winner, PEN Emerging Writers winner, and a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. He’s currently adapting Fourth of July Creek, which is set in a fictional Montana town, into a TV series for El Jefe, a production company founded by novelists Philipp Meyer and Brian McGreevy. Smith’s fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, One Story, New Orleans Review, Makeout Creek, and Witness

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