Rachael (they/them) is a neurodivergent Pākehā (settler) writer from Aotearoa, New Zealand, currently completing their Masters in Creative Writing at Concordia in Tiohti:áke, Montreal. Their poetry has appeared in Overcomm and LBRNTH, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Malahat New Horizons Award. Their fiction has appeared in the Masters Review, been longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

They are currently teaching their cat to talk using Augmentative Interspecies Communication and writing poems about it.