Brian Henderson (born 1948) is a Canadian writer, poet, and photographer, whose book of poetry Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2007.
Henderson, born in 1948 in Kitchener, Ontario, has a PhD in Canadian Literature from York University.
[1] Henderson has worked as a university instructor, a phone jack installer, a traffic counter, a shipper/receiver, and a rock drummer.
He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry including The Alphamiricon, a deck of visual poem-cards.
His poetry and literary criticism has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Antigonish Review, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, CVII, Descant, ECW, The Fiddlehead, Prism, Quarry, Rampike, RUNE (of which he was a founding editor for its decade of existence), Scrivener, Writ and many other literary journals since 1974.