Raye Hendrix is the author of the poetry collection, What Good Is Heaven, selected to represent the state of Alabama in the Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series from Texas Review Press. She has also published two poetry chapbooks, Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press) and Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press), as well as individual poems in journals such as American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, The Journal, and elsewhere, including internationally in France and the United Kingdom. Raye has also published fiction, nonfiction, photography, and disability and literature scholarship. Their primary research areas include Disability Studies, American Literature (post-1800), Gender and Sexuality Studies, Media and Film Studies, and poetry and poetics. Raye is an insufferable Auburn fan and is originally from Birmingham, Alabama.