Raye Hendrix

Raye Hendrix is the author of the poetry collection What Good Is Heaven, forthcoming in September 2024 (Texas Review Press, Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Alabama). Raye has also published two poetry chapbooks, Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press, 2021) and Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press, 2021). She is the winner of the Keene Prize for Literature (2019) and the Patricia Aakhus Award (Southern Indiana Review, 2018), and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has been featured in or is forthcoming from Poetry Daily, American Poetry Review, The Seventh Wave, Poet Lore, 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, Southern Indiana Review, The Adroit Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. Raye holds a BA and MA from Auburn University, an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from University of Oregon.