Raewyn Alexander

{{short description|New Zealand writer (born 1955)}}

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Raewyn Alexander (born 1955) is a New Zealand writer. She has also worked in visual media, producing comics and clothing.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzfashionmuseum.org.nz/raewyn-alexander/|title=New Zealand Fashion Museum|website=www.nzfashionmuseum.org.nz|language=en|access-date=2019-09-11}}

She was born in Hamilton, later moving to Auckland.{{cite web |url=http://nzpoetsonline.homestead.com/ra9.html |title=Very Special Guest Raewyn Alexander |work=blackmailpress 9}} Alexander was editor for the arts magazine Magazine. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines, in the Auckland Poetry Live anthology and in the anthology Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page.{{cite web |url=http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/alexanderraewyn.html |title=Alexander, Raewyn |publisher=New Zealand Book Council}}

In 2016 she had a lengthy essay published in Metro alleging she was engaged to Chris Knox. A spokesperson for Knox denied this, and Metro then retracted the story and apologised.{{cite news|title=Magazine apologises for the Chris Knox wedding that never was|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/79099865/Magazine-apologises-for-the-Chris-Knox-wedding-that-never-was|accessdate=7 January 2017|work=Stuff}}