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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Knoxville, TN

Tennessee US

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.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Twitter/X:

@_rayehendrix

Born in:

Birmingham , AL

Alabama

Raised in:

Pinson, AL

Alabama

Website:

https://rayehendrix.com [2]

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

Education:

University of Texas in Austin, New Writers Project

Writers Retreats:

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Juniper Summer Writing Institute

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Disability

Illness/Wellness

LGBTQ

Mental Health

Naturalists/Environmentalists

Schools

Women