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Starving the Wolf (Bottlecap Press, 2025)
- A poetry chapbook exploring masculinity, queerness, online culture, family, and the uneasy process of becoming. Housed in the Poets House Permanent Collection in New York.

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About

Rayne Alarcio (he/they) is a Filipino American transmasculine poet and media artist from Los Angeles. Their work appears or is forthcoming in journals including Chicago Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, failbetter, and Up the Staircase Quarterly, among others. Their debut chapbook, Starving the Wolf (Bottlecap Press, 2025), is housed in the Poets House Permanent Collection in New York.

Their writing explores queer and transmasculine becoming, diaspora, family mythologies, digital intimacy, and the boundaries between folklore, video games, and the body.

Committed to literary community and youth mentorship, Rayne is a reader for Exposition Review, has served as a National Writing Juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and mentors emerging writers through organizations including WriteGirl and The Incandescent Review. Their mentees have earned national Scholastic recognition, admission to institutions including Bard College and Emory University, and scholarships including the S. Georgia Nugent Creative Writing Scholarship at Kenyon College.

Rayne holds a BA in English with a Film & Media concentration from Kalamazoo College and is currently developing new poetry and hybrid projects while splitting time between Los Angeles and abroad.