Raelke Grimmer is a lecturer in Creative Writing and Applied Linguistics in the College of Indigenous Futures, Education and the Arts. She is one of the co-founding editors of Borderlands, a literary journal of the Northern Territory. Her research interests include creative non-fiction, genre analysis, text 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 treasurer for the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association.