Rae Rowe

Rae Rowe is 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, a 2025-2026 Loft Mentorship Series fellow in Creative Nonfiction, and a 2026 Ragdale resident. Rae has received support from Studio Luce and McCormack Writing Center. 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 currently lives on unceded, ancestral lands of the Dakota people in Minneapolis, Minnesota.