Marcy Rae Henry is a multidisciplinary Xicana artist from the Borderlands who’s had motorcycle crashes in Mexican-America, Turkey and Nepal. She is the author of death is a mariachi, winner of the May Sarton NH Poetry Prize, (Bauhan Press), when to go to the Taj Mahal (Bottlecap Press), the body is where it all begins (Querencia Press), "dream life of night owls," winner of the Open Country Chapbook Contest, (Open Country Press), and We Are Primary Colors (DoubleCross Press). 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 chose her fiction collection as a finalist for the George Garrett Fiction Prize. MRae is a professor of English, literature and creative writing, an associate editor for RHINO and a digital minimalist with no social media accounts. Read more at marcyraehenry.com.
we used to walk across the river. the river that used to flow into the lake now flows into the mississippi. as we crossed over, we wished it was as clear as the river we swam in deep in oregon, where no one looked like me. where the older teachers told me not to talk to the children about my… Read more →