Shannon Rayne is a writer, educator, and storyteller, who once gifted a live audience with watching her panic on stage. She writes heartfelt and comedic fish-out-of-water stories about frenzied women and girls struggling to embrace unique paths – they’re utterly unprepared for. She draws inspiration from her previous career working in psychology research centres, and her lived experience tackling an impressive range of fears– in off-kilter ways.

Since graduating with an MFA in Creative Writing, she’s had two comedy TV pilots receive top honours at the Austin Film Festival, written and directed several short comedy films, and was a TV fellow at the 2023 Respectability Entertainment Lab.

When she’s not writing, she teaches storytelling to stuffed unicorns, and the wee silly children who own them, infusing her pilot, manuscripts, and collaborations with playfulness. And stickers.