Rae White is a non-binary transgender writer, educator and zine maker. Their poetry collection Milk Teeth won the 2017 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award.
Rae's second poetry collection Exactly As I Am was shortlisted for the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and 2023 Queensland Literary Awards.
Rae has poems published in Nothing to Hide - Voices of Trans and Gender-Diverse Australia and also contributed a piece to Dear Lover.
Rae's short story 'The Body Remembers' placed second in the 2019 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. They have had poetry published in many journals, including Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit.
Rae is the Creative Director and Founder of community poetry initiative Uplift Poetry, and the Founding Editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives.
