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 received the Fence Reader’s Choice fellowship to the International Literary Seminars in Kenya. They are currently completing a long poem that explores the role of art and community in natural disaster recovery.