Raelke Grimmer is an Applied Linguistics and Creative Writing scholar and a Lecturer in Academic Foundations in the College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society. She lectures in academic literacies, sustainability and assessment design. She is one of the co-founding editors of Borderlands, a literary journal of the Northern Territory. Her research interests include equitable teaching and learning practices in higher education, creative non-fiction, genre analysis, multilingual Australian literatures and mono/multilingualism in Australia. Her creative writing has been published in Australian literary journals Westerly, Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings and Meniscus. She is the Northern Territory Executive Representative of the Association of Academic Language and Learning and treasurer for the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association.