Rayanne Haines (she/her) is a pushcart nominated poet and an award-winning hybrid author as well as an independent producer and podcaster. A previous Writer in Residence for the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries, Rayanne is currently an Assistant Professor in the Arts and Cultural Management Program at MacEwan University and is the President for the League of Canadian Poets.

 

Rayanne has penned four poetry collections - The Stories in My Skin (2013), Stained with the Colours of Sunday Morning (Inanna, 2017), Tell The Birds Your Body Is Not A Gun (Frontenac, 2021) which won the 2022 Stephan G. Stephansson, Alberta Literary Award for Poetry as well as being shortlisted for both the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry, and the National ReLit Award for Poetry, and What Kind of Daughter? (Frontenac 2024) a poetic memoir exploring identity and grief following her mother's death. Her essay, This is Normal, published in Impact: Women Writing After Concussion (UofA Press), was shortlisted for the John Whyte Memorial Essay Alberta Literary Award. She is a 2019 Edmonton Artist Trust Fund Award recipient.

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Rayanne Haines’s writing has appeared or will appear in The Globe and Mail, Grain Magazine, Minola Review, Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Impact: The Lives of Women After Concussion Anthology, Voicing Suicide Anthology, The Selkie Resiliency Anthology, Freefall,  and Funicular among others. 

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In her 20+ years in the arts sector, Rayanne has held various leadership and mentorship roles including those with The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Writers Guild of Alberta, The Edmonton Arts Council, The Edmonton Region Federation of Libraries, Stony Plain Records,  and The Edmonton Poetry Festival. 

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Rayanne holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Arts, Festival and Cultural Management from Queen Margaret University.

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Her current research explores intersectional non-institutionalized death-related coping strategies, and the affects of artistic and individual expression on grief ceremony.