Rainie Oet is a nonbinary writer and game designer, former Editor-in-Chief at Salt Hill Journal, and the author of three forthcoming books of poetry: Porcupine in Freefall (winner of the 2018 Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition), Inside Ball Lightning (SEMO Press), and Glorious Veils of Diane (Carnegie Mellon University Press). They won the 2019 Puerto Del Sol Poetry Contest. They have an MFA in Poetry from Syracuse University, where they were awarded the Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction.