A 2022 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, Rae Canaan's fiction has received awards placements in literary magazines such as Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest - Longlisted, Craft Magazine - Longlisted & Honorable Mention, American Short Fiction - Semi-Finalist, Driftwood Press - Finalist , Epoch Magazine -Finalist, New Letters’ Robert Day Award for Fiction - Finalist. Rae publishes short fiction in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Narrative Magazine, University of New Orleans Press Bayou Magazine. As a screenwriter/director working under the name Ami Canaan Mann, her essays on film have appeared in Talkhouse and No Film School.