HI! I’m Rae Rowe. 

I am a queer, non-binary, gender-fluid, Viet-Am, child of a boat person-refugee, writer, movement worker, creator, and future ghost who uses hir work to explore inherited trauma, liminal spaces, auntie whispers, and connect with community. Rae is a 2025 Periplus fellow in Fiction and a  2025-2026 Loft Mentorship Series fellow in Creative Nonfiction. Rae has received support from Studio Luce.

Rae is also the co-founder of The Paper Lantern Project: An AAPI Gender & Reproductive Justice Mutual Aid Fund and Arts Movement which centers care and creating new narratives around these topics while working towards forming new futures of true liberation.

Rae loves nice pencils, making a pretty bouquet, and baking Southeast Asian-inspired desserts.

Rae currently lives on unceded, ancestral lands of the Dakota people in Minneapolis, Minnesota.