Charlotte Henay is a Bahamian diasporic teller. Her work is rooted in restorative practice, story as relationality, Black feminist spiritwork, and the tending of grief. She listens to the plants and is a student of dreamwork, shamanic practices for healing and divination, and ancestral practices as pathways into knowledge keeping, memory, and shape shifting.

Charlotte poets, makes across disciplines, and scholars. Her poetic work centers on the process of talking with the dead and, through that practice, confronting and transforming absences for healing and remembrance.

She has advanced training in literary and cultural studies and Sociology in Education, with a focus on grief. She holds a PhD from York University, and has also trained as a death doula, a restorative practice practitioner, and a community herbalist. She is currently engaged in advanced spirit work training with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.

Henay’s writing has been published in Canada and internationally in literary magazines including ROOM, ARC, and The Offing, as well as in academic journals such as RACAR, The Canadian Theatre Review, and CPI. Her multidisciplinary work has been exhibited at the Nasher Museum, the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, and at conferences and galleries in New York City, Miami, and Toronto. She is a recovering academic.