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 the body is where it all begins (just out from Querencia Press), dream life of night owls (Open Country Press 2024), and We Are Primary Colors (DoubleCross Press 2023). Her poetry collection, death is a mariachi, won the May Sarton NH Prize for Poetry and will be published this spring. 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 at Wright College Chicago, a Hispanic Serving Institution, where she serves as Coordinator of the Latin American Latino/x Studies Program and received Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s 2023-2024 Outstanding Educator Award. She is digital minimalist with no social media accounts. marcyraehenry.com