Alabama Authors Directory

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Raye Hendrix

Hometown: Pinson, AL Lives in: ,

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  • Email: rayehendrix@outlook.com

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  • Preferred Contact Method: Form on My Website, Instagram: @_rayehendrix

 

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About Raye Hendrix

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: Dr. Raye Hendrix is a writer and disability scholar from Alabama. Born in Birmingham and raised in Pinson, Raye attended Auburn University for their Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English, the University of Texas at Austin for their MFA in Poetry, and the University of Oregon for their PhD in English and Disability Studies. She is the author of the poetry collection, What Good Is Heaven, which was published by Texas Review Press to represent Alabama in their Southern Poetry Breakthrough …Read More Series (2024). Also the author of two poetry chapbooks, Raye’s poetry has been featured in journals such as American Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Poetry Northwest, and The Journal, among others. Raye also publishes creative nonfiction, fiction, photography, and literary scholarship, and currently teaches in the English department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Works: Books:
-What Good Is Heaven (Texas Review Press, Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Alabama, 2024)
Chapbooks:
-Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press, 2021)
-Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press, 2021)
Select Journal …Read More Publications:
-Poetry:
River Styx (2025)
The Journal (2024)
Seventh Wave (2023)
American Poetry Review (2023)
Birmingham Poetry Review (2023)
Poet Lore (2022)
Tupelo Quarterly (2022)
McNeese Review (2020)
Passages North (2020)
32 Poems (2020)
Poetry Northwest (2020)
Cimarron Review (2019)
Zone 3 (2019)
Southern Indiana Review (2018)
-Nonfiction:
Gasher Press (2023)
Wordgathering (2022)
68to05 (2021)
Crab Fat Magazine (2019)
-Fiction:
The Pinch (2023)
Adroit Journal (2021)
-Photography:
Northwest Review (2023)
Hayden’s Ferry Review (2023)
North American Review (2023)
-Scholarship:
Publications of the Modern Language Association / PMLA (2025)
Sex and Supernatural: Essays / McFarland Books (2025)
Poetry Northwest (2021)

Awards:

Oregon Humanities Center Dissertation Fellowship (2023-2024)
Breadloaf Scholarship Recipient (2021)
University of Oregon Raymund Fellowship (2019-2020)
Keene Prize for Literature (2019)
Southern Indiana Review’s Patricia Aakhus Award (2018)

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