Rae Gouirand is the author of two collections of poetry, Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press, 2018) and Open Winter (Bellday Books, 2011), the chapbooks Rough Sequence (Seven Kitchens Press, 2023), Little Hour (Swan Scythe Press, 2022), Jinx (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019), and Must Apple (Educe Press, 2018), and a short work of nonfiction, The History of Art (The Atlas Review, 2019). Her book-length poem The Velvet Book, a meditation on queer commitment and changeability, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press through the Portage Poetry Series in spring 2024.

Rae’s work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Cave Wall, Conjunctions, Crazyhorse, diode, Ethel Zine, Foglifter, The Iowa Review, jubilat, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Seneca Review, Spinning Jenny, Tupelo Quarterly, Under a Warm Green Linden, ZYZZYVA, two volumes of the Best New Poets series, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation, Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology, and many other journals and anthologies nationwide.

An alumna of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA program at the University of Michigan, she has received numerous fellowships and awards for her poetry and nonfiction from institutions including the Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence Program, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. She leads several longrunning independent workshops in northern California and online, including her cross-genre workshop Scribe Lab, and has lectured in the Department of English, where she leads workshops in poetry, creative nonfiction, and short fiction, since 2012.