A Filipinx-American artist, Geramee Hensley is the Social Media Manager for The Kenyon Review and Poetry Editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal. Their work has been featured in Button Poetry, Permanent Record: Poetics Towards the Archive (Nightboat Books, 2025), Indiana Review, Essay Daily, The Journal, The Margins, The Fairy Tale Review, The Recluse, and elsewhere. They’ve won numerous awards including The Minnie Torrance Award in Poetry and The Bill Waller Award in Nonfiction; most recently their mixed media poems have received a 2022 Academy of American Poets Prize and Booth Journal’s 2022 Beyond the Margins prize. Additionally, they were the second-place recipient of Frontier Poetry’s 2023 Hurt and Healing Prize. Their work has been supported by the Tin House Writers Workshop and the Mellon HSI Crossing Latinidades Fellowship.

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Geramee Hensley is Deceased, and I am Filing This Tax Return on Their Behalf

By GERAMEE HENSLEY

I’m praying death sticks around long enough / to make a disciple of me.