Lecturer
Raye Hendrix is a writer, photographer, and disability scholar from Alabama. Her debut poetry collection, What Good Is Heaven, is forthcoming September 1st from Texas Review Press in their Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series (2024). Also the author of two poetry chapbooks, Raye is the winner of the 2019 Keene Prize For Literature and the 2018 Patricia Aakhus Award (Southern Indiana Review). For their work at the intersections of disability studies and poetics, Raye has received fellowships from the University of Oregon and the Oregon Humanities Center, as well as presented at the College English Association and Variabilities conferences. Additionally, Raye’s creative work has been featured in 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, including internationally. Raye’s research interests include disability studies, poetry and poetics, queer and gender studies, American Literature from 1800, autoethnography and memoir, visual rhetorics, and film/media studies. Raye holds a BA and MA in English from Auburn University, an MFA in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from the University of Oregon.