Fiction. "THIRTY MILES TO ROSEBUD depicts a series of imploding families and fast interstates. Barbara Henning's landscapes—a rust-belt childhood, a nearly forgotten East Village Bohemia and the arid Southwest streaked with the setting sun—are populated by runaways, lost loves and lifelong betrayals. In this remarkable novel, Henning's eye for detail and her emotional honesty enables the past to loom in the rear-view mirror long after the car has sped by"—Donald Breckenridge.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Barbara Henning is the author of three novels: THIRTY MILES TO ROSEBUD; YOU, ME, AND THE INSECTS; and Black Lace. Her books of poetry include MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Detective Sentences, LOVE MAKES THINKING DARK, SMOKING IN THE TWILIGHT BAR, as well as numerous chapbooks and a series of photo-poem pamphlets. A collection of prose and poetry, CITIES & MEMORY, was published by Chax Press in 2010. New York City. She is a native Detroiter and has been long-time resident of New York City. Her latest work is LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS (Belladonna*, 2011), a collection of essays on and conversations with the poet Harryette Mullen.

Reviews and Other Links
http://smallpressreviews.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/thirty-miles-to-rosebud/
http://poetryproject.org/featured-content/review-of-thirty-miles-to-rosebud-by-barbara-henning.html