Raye Hendrix is a poet and scholar from Alabama. She is the author of the chapbooks Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press) and Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press). She holds degrees from Auburn University and earned her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin's New Writers Project, where she was the winner of the Keene Prize for Literature and the Michael Adams Thesis Prize in Poetry, selected by Robyn Schiff. Also the winner of the Patricia Aakhus Award (Southern Indiana Review, 2018), Raye has been a finalist for the Keene Prize, the Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal’s Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, and received honorable mentions from AWP’s Intro Journals Project and Southern Humanities Review’s Witness Poetry Prize. Raye's work has been featured on Poetry Daily and has appeared in 32 Poems, Southern Indiana Review, Shenandoah, Cimarron Review, Poetry Northwest, Zone 3, and elsewhere. Raye is a PhD student at the University of Oregon studying Poetics and Crip Theory with a focus on d/Deaf American Poetry.
