Rae White

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Rae White
Born1985 (age 3839)
OccupationWriter
NationalityAustralian
Website
raewhite.net

Rae White is a Brisbane-based poet and writer. White is non-binary and the founding editor of the online periodical #EnbyLife: Journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives. White's 2017 poetry collection Milk Teeth won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Their poetry and writing has been published in the Australian Poetry Journal, Capricious, Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, and Rabbit.

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White's poems have been described as "challeng[ing] notions of category, identity, form and gender" [1] and having an "ability to incorporate new techniques without alienating the reader". [2] They are also involved in poetry judging panels, including the 2019 and 2020 Anne Elder Award. They have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Production from QUT.

Published works

Awards and nominations

Prize judging and editor

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References

  1. 1 2 "Milk teeth". Trove Books, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Milk Teeth, Rae White". University of Queensland Press. 2018. ISBN   9780702260162 . Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  3. White, Rae; d'Anthes, Sha'an, (illustrator.); Lothian Children's Books (2025), All the Colours of the Rainbow (Illustrated ed.), Hachette Australia, ISBN   978-0-7344-2307-8 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Demmers, Aidan, ed. (2024). Celestial Bodies. Tiny Owl Workshop (published 1 September 2024). ISBN   9780648403449.
  5. Mcl, Hiro; Elkin, Sam, (editor.); Gallagher, Alex, (editor.); Rees, Yves, (editor.); Sayed, Bo, (editor.) (2022), Nothing to hide : voices of trans and gender diverse Australia, Allen & Unwin, ISBN   978-1-76106-649-8 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. White, Rae (2022). Exactly as I am. St Lucia, Queensland. ISBN   978-0-7022-6670-6. OCLC   1327956291.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. "local, attention". Australian Poetry Journal. 11 (1). 2021. ISSN   2204-3632 . Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  8. "Defy". Antithesis Journal. 31. 22 October 2021. ISBN   9780646848914.
  9. "The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue". Capricious Magazine (9). 2018. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
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