Raeden was raised in Melbourne and has lived in Singapore and New York City. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

He is the author of The Degenerates (novel).

His work has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the American Australian Association, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the Kittredge Fund. He has been an artist-in-residence at La Napoule Art Foundation and Yaddo.

His writing has appeared in Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings, The Masters Review, The Age, Strangely Enough and New Australian Fiction.