Raye Hendrix

Raye Hendrix is a writer from Alabama. Her debut poetry collection, "What Good Is Heaven," is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in their Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series (2024). Also the author of two poetry chapbooks, Raye is the winner of the Keene Prize for Literature (2019) and the Patricia Aakhus Award (Southern Indiana Review, 2018). Their poems appear in American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, Birmingham Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Raye is a PhD candidate at the University of Oregon and an editor at Press Pause Press and DIS/CONNECT: A Disability Literature Column (Anomalous Press).