Rachel J Fenton is a writer, graphic artist and anthologist, living in Oamaru and a curator at the Janet Frame House. She has won fiction competitions in Aotearoa and overseas, including the Laura Solomon NZSA Cuba Press Prize 2022, was shortlisted for The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize and is a Pushcart nominee. She is co-editor with Sarah Laing and Indira Neville of Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics, and as Rae Joyce, she is an award-winning graphic poet.