Rae Canaan is a current recipient of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference placement (Aug ’24), a Vermont Studio Center residency (Oct ’23) and a July ’22 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Several chapters of her thesis novel have found publication or awards placement as stand-alones in journals such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Narrative Magazine, Driftwood Press and New Letter’s Robert Day Award for Fiction.

Born in London, she was raised in rural Indiana. Her background is as a TV and film director/writer where she works under the name Ami Canaan Mann. She splits her time between Los Angeles and an island in the Pacific Northwest.