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