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 currently working on a hybrid memoir mapping the impacts of the Vietnam War, focused on the history of Agent Orange, as well as a novella and short story collection. Rae is a 2025 Periplus fellow and a 2025-2026 Loft Mentorship Series fellow in creative nonfiction. 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. Through this work Rae has created and edited Cut Fruit: Creative Offerings, Stories and Art from Future Ancestors (An Asian American Pacific Islander Gender & Reproductive Justice Anthology) and curated Queer Asian and Southeast Asian art shows. Rae currently lives on unceded, ancestral lands of the Dakota people in Minneapolis, Minnesota.