Marcy Rae Henry

Marcy Rae Henry is a multidisciplinary Chicana artist from the Borderlands. She grew up by the Fountain Creek and the Río Grande, waded in the Ganges, floated in the Dead Sea, down the Nile and the Yangtze and quarantined by the Chicago River. She is the author of the body is where it all begins (Querencia Press 2025), red delicious (dancing girl press 2025), dream life of night owls (Open Country Press 2024), and We Are Primary Colors (DoubleCross Press 2023). Her poetry collection death is a mariachi won the May Sarton NH Prize for Poetry and will be published in April 2025. Her work has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart nomination, first prize in Suburbia’s Novel Excerpt Contest and Kaveh Akbar recently choose her collection of fiction as a finalist for the George Garrett Fiction Prize. MRae is a digital minimalist with no social media accounts and an associate editor for RHINO Poetry.