Raye Hendrix

Poet

Knoxville, TN
Tennessee US
Website: 
rayehendrix.com
Twitter/X: 
@_rayehendrix

Author's Bio

Raye Hendrix is a writer, photographer and disability scholar from Alabama. Her debut collection of poems, What Good is Heaven, is out now from Texas Review Press (2024). Raye earned her BA and MA from Auburn University, their MFA from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin, and their PhD from the University of Oregon. Raye has worked as the Online Content and Web Editor for Bat City Review and Assistant Managing Editor for Southern Humanities Review. They currently serve as the poetry co-editor of Press Pause Press and editor for DIS/CONNECT: A Disability Literature Column (Anomalous Press). She teaches in the English Department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. 

Education: 
University of Texas in Austin, New Writers Project MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Juniper Summer Writing Institute

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Let Me Say This (Madville Publishing, 2023)
,
Mid/South Sonnets (Belle Point Press, 2023)
,
The Aunt Flo Project: An Anthology of Writing About Menstruation (Querencia Press, 2023)
,
The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. X: Alabama (Texas Review Press, 2023)
,
The Ending Hasn't Happened Yet (Sable Books, 2022)
,
Erase the Patriarchy (University of Hell Press, 2020)
Book:
What Good Is Heaven (Texas Review Press, 2024)
Chapbooks:
Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press, 2021)
,
Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press, 2021)
Journals:
32 Poems
,
Adirondack Review
,
American Poetry Review
,
Anomalous Press
,
Birmingham Poetry Review
,
Blue Mountain Review
,
Blue River Review
,
Boiler Journal
,
Chattahoochee Review
,
Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal at Washington College
,
Cimarron Review
,
Columbia Poetry Review
,
Elsewhere Magazine
,
Fourteen Poems
,
Glass: A Journal of Poetry
,
The Literary Nest
,
McNeese Review
,
Moist Poetry Journal
,
Nelle
,
Nightjar Review
,
Passages North
,
Pinch
,
Plath Poetry Project
,
Poet Lore
,
Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
,
Poetry Northwest
,
Press Pause
,
Rappahannock Review
,
Rattle
,
Screen Door Review
,
Shenandoah
,
Southern Indiana Review
,
Taco Bell Quarterly
,
Tinderbox Poetry Journal
,
Tupelo Quarterly
,
Verse of April
,
Wordgathering: A Disability Journal
,
Zone 3
Prizes won: 
  • Oregon Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship, 2023-2024
  • Keene Prize for Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 2019
  • Michael Adams Thesis Prize (Judged by Robyn Schiff), University of Texas at Austin, 2019
  • Patricia Aakhus Award, Southern Indiana Review, 2018

Other:

  • Longlisted for the Perennial Press Chapbook Awards, 2022
  • Finalist, The Previously Published Poem Prize, Palette Poetry, 2021
  • Semi-finalist, CutBank Chapbook Contest, 2020
  • Finalist, Rossetti Broadside Prize, American Literary Review, 2019
  • Finalist, Keene Prize for Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 2018
  • Finalist, Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing, 2018
  • Finalist, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Prize for Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, 2018
  • Honorable Mention for "The Daughters of Le Valle de Singe," AWP's Intro Journals Project, 2015
  • Semi-finalist, The Witness Poetry Prize Honoring Jake Adam York, Southern Humanities Review, 2014

 

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any, Disability, Illness/Wellness, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Schools, Women
Born in: 
Birmingham , AL
Alabama
Raised in: 
Pinson, AL
Alabama
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Last update: Sep 02, 2024