About

“Hendrix is bombastic, she is the actual spiritual third, for hers is the spirit of expansion and self exalting.” 
— Frater Asemlen, Reterritorialise

Dear Reader,

I’m an author and musician from Northern California. I played in the indie folk and international folk music scene for several years before studying electronic music composition and media technology at Mills College to learn to better set my poetry to music. Afterward I did work-for-hire as a composer and music producer and worked odd jobs to support my artistic life while I produced an EP and later an LP of my original music. Then life happened.

I’ve spent the last few years digging deeper into the craft of writing. My poetry has appeared in Nonbinary Review by Zoetic Press and the California Writers Club anthology Vision & Verse, and my short fiction has been featured in the anthology The Midnight Vault. I’m currently working on a collection of short stories called Surge & Smother, and recently published my first full-length, solo collection, Misanthrope: A Collection of Poems.

Love eternal,
Annie

BUY Misanthrope from the Lulu Store
READ recent work on my Substack
LISTEN to my music on Bandcamp etc.

Press

Auburn Community Television, Work In Progress, Guest Annie Hendrix (April 2026)
Reterritorialise, Upon the “Girly” Style: An Analysis (January 2026)
Madame Bookworm, Book Review of The Midnight Vault, (July 2025)
Aldora Britain Records, Fake it 'til You Make it  (April 2024)
Anti-Heroin Chic, Interview with Singer-Songwriter Annie Cilley (November 2016)

Blog

Why Does Kafkaesque Nonsense Always Happen to Me?

Annie Hendrix

From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Blue Mountains Walking (Multiple Authors), 
Weight of Water (Samantha Wallen), The Light We Give (Mary Anne Evanson), 
Why to These Rocks (Hass/Alvarez), Misanthrope (Annie Hendrix), Souvenir (Sara…

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Apr 29, 2026

ANNIE HENDRIX IS DEAD

Annie Hendrix

ANNIE HENDRIX is dead.1 This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it. The poet was not particularly well known, personally or by reputation, and though she had readers in the Americas, United Kingdom,…

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Nov 1, 2025

The Future of Nature

Annie Hendrix

“The Future of Nature” is an Earth Day community writing project for fiction writers to explore the human-nature relationship in a short story or poem. It was organized by Claudia Befu and Julie Gabrielli, and supported with advice…

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Apr 22, 2025

The Midnight Vault Now Available in Paperback

Annie Hendrix  

The Midnight Vault (2025)

Twenty-nine strange tales from The Substack Zone are now available in paperback and ebook, including “Hector" by Annie Hendrix. “Hector,” first appeared as part of The Substack Zone, a collection of short stories…

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Mar 17, 2025

Do You Dream Like J.R.R. Tolkien?

Annie Hendrix

Sea Lion Overlook near Pt. Reyes Lighthouse (2021) Photo by Annie Hendrix

My husband and I love J.R.R. Tolkien. We each read The Hobbit as children and our appreciation of the vast universe he created is a shared…

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Aug 11, 2024

Celebrating The Release Of A New Ekphrastic Poetry Anthology

Annie Hendrix
 

Coming Out (as a Poet)

I don’t have much formal education or professional experience as a creative writer. My B.A. is in music composition, and I’ve spent the last decade of my professional artistic life working first as…

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Jul 20, 2024