About

Raelke Grimmer is a young adult author, analogue photographer and linguist living on Larrakia Country in Garramilla/Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Her debut young adult novel, White Noise (UWA Publishing, 2024) won the 2026 IBBY Australia Ena Noël Award, was selected as a Children’s Book Council of Australia 2025 Notable work in the young adult category, and shortlisted for the 2025 Readings Prize for Young Adult Fiction. Raelke’s creative nonfiction has been published in Australian literary journals Griffith Review, Westerly, Kill Your Darlings, Cordite and Meniscus, and her poem ‘Burning Two AM Conversations’ was shortlisted in the Poetry Award in the 2023 Northern Territory Literary Awards.

Raelke was a 2023 participant in the Australia Council and Creative New Zealand’s Digital Fellowship Program, where she worked on a project titled ‘Analostalgia’, using analogue technologies in digital spaces as a way of time travelling through space and place. She recorded an album of analogue sounds titled Analostalgia (2024), available on Spotify.

Raelke’s photography practice centres on black and white analogue photography and explores the interplay between digital storytelling and film photography. She is a founding editor of Northern Territory literary journal Borderlands, a journal publishing the very best of Northern Territory and First Nations storytelling in all storytelling formats. She completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Flinders University in 2021 and is Dean, Academy of the Arts at Charles Darwin University.