Brynne Rebele-Henry (born November 1999) is an American writer of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Rebele-Henry at the 2019 Texas Book Festival

In 2016, Rebele-Henry published her first book, Fleshgraphs, with Nightboat Books. Her second book, Autobiography of a Wound, won the 2017 AWP Donald Hall Prize. She has received a 2017 Glenna Ruschei Award from Prairie Schooner for her story "The Small Elf People," the 2015 Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America for her poem "Narwhal,"[1] and the 2016 Adroit Prize for Prose for an excerpt of her novel The Glass House.[2]

Rebele-Henry's debut novel, Orpheus Girl, was published by Soho Press in October 2019.[3] Her 2022 poetry collection, Prelude, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press and was a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry.[4]

Her work centers around topics like feminism, lesbianism, homophobic violence, and girlhood.

Her writing has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Dusie, Fiction International, jubilat, The Adroit Journal, and Rookie.

Publications

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  • Fleshgraphs (New York: Nightboat Books, 2016)
  • Autobiography of a Wound (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
  • Orpheus Girl (Soho Teen, 2021)
  • Prelude (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

References

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  1. ^ "Brynne Rebele-Henry - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  2. ^ "2016 Adroit Prizes: Brynne Rebele-Henry". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  3. ^ "Soho Press".
  4. ^ "Prelude". University of Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved 2024-07-24.