Susan McHenry

Susan McHenry landed her first fulltime magazine job in 1978 at Ms. Magazine and worked there as an editor and writer for ten years. She went on to positions at Working Woman Magazine, Essence, and helped launch Emerge Magazine as managing editor and Black Issues Book Review as executive editor (both launches each published for a decade). More recently, she taught developmental reading and writing to underprepared urban students at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College for ten years until the pandemic changed every thing. Currently she works from home as a freelance editor and writer.

Susan McHenry lived in Cabot Hall, East House, freshman year; returned to Cabot Hall first semester sophomore year, but moved down the street to Wolbach second semester. Then she married a Harvard classmate in August 1970, and lived off campus a few blocks from Radcliffe and her beloved Hilles Library through her graduation in 1973.