About H.K. Rainey
H.K. Rainey is the author of Memory House and Sotto Voce. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Mills College in Oakland, California, where she was a two-time poetry editor of the literary journal 580 Split. She is a founding member of the literary collective 9st along with Paul Corman-Roberts [Coming World, Gone World and (neo)commuter] and Youssef Alaoui [The Blue Demon].
Her work has appeared in Jacket Magazine, the Sand Canyon Review, deadpaper, The Walrus, Bang Out SF, Corium Magazine, Full of Crow, Rusty Truck Magazine, New College Review (Tuscaloosa), Cider Press Review, Mad Rush, sPARKLE and bLINK, and Bird's Thumb (forthcoming); and the anthologies Word Trips: Poems from the First Coast (Hidden Owl Books, 2007), So Speak Up! (Oakland, 2010) and Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War 2001-2011 (Ed. Sean Labrador Y Manzano). She has appeared in several Bay Area reading series including Acker's Dangerous Daughters, the Bang Out Reading Series, Contingency, Quiet Lightning, Bitchez Brew, Lyrics & Dirges, Lip Service West, San Francisco's Litcrawl, Oakland's BeastCrawl, and Works in Progress. She produced and co-curated the Anger Management Reading Series in San Francisco and Oakland. Aside from her literary work, H.K. is a consummate traveler, taking every chance she can to hit the road and photograph new and inspiring places. She teaches English at Florida State College in Jacksonville where she lives and writes. She is a medieval re-enactor with the Society for Creative Anachronism. Her area of concentration is the Black Death and the social implications following devastating pestilence and disease. Her first novel, These Hours of Bones and Ash, the first installment in her fantasy series The Arqiyyon, is forthcoming.
Her work has appeared in Jacket Magazine, the Sand Canyon Review, deadpaper, The Walrus, Bang Out SF, Corium Magazine, Full of Crow, Rusty Truck Magazine, New College Review (Tuscaloosa), Cider Press Review, Mad Rush, sPARKLE and bLINK, and Bird's Thumb (forthcoming); and the anthologies Word Trips: Poems from the First Coast (Hidden Owl Books, 2007), So Speak Up! (Oakland, 2010) and Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War 2001-2011 (Ed. Sean Labrador Y Manzano). She has appeared in several Bay Area reading series including Acker's Dangerous Daughters, the Bang Out Reading Series, Contingency, Quiet Lightning, Bitchez Brew, Lyrics & Dirges, Lip Service West, San Francisco's Litcrawl, Oakland's BeastCrawl, and Works in Progress. She produced and co-curated the Anger Management Reading Series in San Francisco and Oakland. Aside from her literary work, H.K. is a consummate traveler, taking every chance she can to hit the road and photograph new and inspiring places. She teaches English at Florida State College in Jacksonville where she lives and writes. She is a medieval re-enactor with the Society for Creative Anachronism. Her area of concentration is the Black Death and the social implications following devastating pestilence and disease. Her first novel, These Hours of Bones and Ash, the first installment in her fantasy series The Arqiyyon, is forthcoming.