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 Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, ...

, Capricious, Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, and Rabbit. White's poems have been described as "challeng ngnotions of category, identity, form and gender" and having an "ability to incorporate new techniques without alienating the reader". 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

* ''Exactly As I Am'' published by UQP (2022) * '''''Abundantly blue'' in ''Australian poetry journal'' (2021) * '''''wanna cyber??? ;))'' in ''Antithesis Journal'' (2021) * ''Milk Teeth'' published by UQP (2018) * 'Glitter and Leaf Litter' in ''Capricious'' (2018) * '''''apollo polination'' in ''Meanjin Quarterly'' (2017)

Awards and nominations

* Shortlist in the

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for ''Standup'' (2022) Published in Backslash Lit * Digital Innovation Shortlist in the

for ''How to Haunt'' (2021) * Highest Queensland Entry in the Queensland Poetry Festival Awards for ''The last tourist'' (2020) * Shortlist in the

for ''who, what, why, where'' (2020) * Highest Queensland Entry in the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word for ''Hussshhh'' (2019) * Second Place in the

Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt ...

for ''The Body Remembers'' (2019) * Second Place in the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for ''what even r u?'' (2017) * Winner in the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for ''Milk Teeth'' (2017)

Prize judging and editor

* ''Anne Elder Award'' (Judge in 2019 and 2020) * ''#EnbyLife'' (Editor)

References

External links

#EnbyLife Journal

Rae White on University of Queensland Press website

Official website

GoodReads Author page
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