L I Henley
L. I. Henley was born and raised in the Mojave Desert town of Joshua Tree, California. She is the author of six books including STARSHINE ROAD (Perugia Press, 2017), her second full-length collection which won the 2017 Perugia Press Prize, the novella-in-verse, Whole Night Through (What Books Press, 2019), and the poetry and art book From the moon, as I fell (Nightjar Collective, 2020) with artist Zara Kand. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rhino , Waxwing , Tupelo , Diode , Zone 3 ,...See more
L. I. Henley was born and raised in the Mojave Desert town of Joshua Tree, California. She is the author of six books including STARSHINE ROAD (Perugia Press, 2017), her second full-length collection which won the 2017 Perugia Press Prize, the novella-in-verse, Whole Night Through (What Books Press, 2019), and the poetry and art book From the moon, as I fell (Nightjar Collective, 2020) with artist Zara Kand. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rhino , Waxwing , Tupelo , Diode , Zone 3 , Tinderbox , The American Literary Review , Thrush , Ninth Letter , and Arts & Letters . Her essay, "Drive!" was chosen by Jason Allen as the winner of the Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 2020. See less