Raye Hendrix (she/they) is an award-winning poet from Alabama. Their debut full-length collection of poetry, "What Good Is Heaven," is recently out from Texas Review Press as the Alabama selection for their Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series (Sept. 2024). Also the author of two chapbooks, Raye's work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere. Raye holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD from the University of Oregon, and currently teaches in the English department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. For more information visit rayehendrix.com.