The Write Stuff - Virginia
October 2014
Haley Hendershot and I first met when she was completing her practicum work prior to her first full time teaching position. She was training with my colleague at school, and we struck up a conversation about poetry. Haley was working toward her Master of Fine Arts through a college in Vermont, and we were both looking for people with whom we could workshop poems and short fiction. That was nearly seven years ago. Since that time, Haley has moved, finished her MFA, been head of her department at a middle school in Henrico County outside of Richmond, Virginia, and has developed a definite philosophy on the impact of authentic writing assignments and publication in relation to her students’ investment in the craft.