Jessica Raschke

Jessica Raschke is a writer, artist, therapist and educator whose work explores soulfulness, meaning and the complexities of the human experience. Across creative practice, therapy, teaching and community engagement, she creates spaces for deep inquiry into the questions that shape how we live and love. She is currently a Lecturer at Metavision.

A longstanding focus of her work is dying, death, grief, and loss, which has been inspired by her training as a deathwalker with the Natural Death Care Centre and as a death doula with Preparing the Way. She is a passionate advocate for death and grief literacy and regularly facilitates Death Cafés and Mortality and Mystery gatherings, creating spaces for tender, curious and open-hearted conversations.

Her creative practice often centres on participation, reflection, and meaningful connection. In working across installation, poetry, public and participatory art, she creates encounters that bring the hidden, overlooked, and deeply felt into everyday spaces.

Recent works include LOVE LAND, a community-building planting project that has featured at various locations and events, such as The CORRIDOR Project’s ERTHWRX24 and Bundanon’s MAKE GOOD FESTIVAL; and Ruined Roads (featured at Way Out in Kandos as part of the Australian Walking Artists’ exhibition, Way Out Goes Way Beyond). In 2024, Ruined Roads and GRAVES were featured at Articulate Project Space. Learn more about her other works here (otherwise known as the “What Jess did while trying to avoid facing her writerly fate” section).

Jess holds a PhD in Culture and Communication from RMIT University, following a Bachelor of Arts (Cultural Studies and History, Dean’s List) from the University of Melbourne and training in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. In 2023, she completed training in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Metavision.

You can learn more about her here and get in touch with her here.