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Marcy Rae Henry is a multidisciplinary Xicana artist from the Borderlands who’s had motorcycle incidences in Mexican-America, Turkey and Nepal. She is the author of death is a mariachi, winner of the 2024 May Sarton Poetry Prize (Bauhan Press 2025), when to go to the Taj Mahal (Bottlecap Press 2025), the body is where it all begins (Querencia Press 2025), dream life of night owls, winner of the Open Country Chapbook Contest (Open Country Press 2024), and We Are Primary Colors (DoubleCross Press 2023). 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 choose her collection of fiction as a finalis ...more

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	CTA Chronicles 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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