Rae Canaan is a 2022 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, her fiction has found awards placements in literary magazines such as Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest Longlisted (2026), Craft Magazine Longlisted (2025) & Honorable Mention (2023), American Short Fiction Semi-Finalist (2025), Driftwood Press Finalist (2025 & 2023), Epoch Magazine Finalist (2025), New Letters’ Robert Day Award for Fiction Finalist (2021).

She has published short fiction in the Los Angeles Review of Book’s Air Issue (2023), University of New Orleans’ Bayou Magazine (2022), Narrative Magazine’s Spring Issue (2021) and her essays have appeared in Talkhouse (2025) and No Film School (2025) writing under the name Ami Canaan Mann.

She is current alternate staff recipient for the 2026 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and a recipient of a 2025 Vermont Studio Center residency. She has also received a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference residency (2024), and a prior Vermont Studio Center residency (2023). 

Her background is as a TV and film director/writer where she works under the name Ami Canaan Mann. Raised in Indiana, she lives in upstate New York.