Rayanne Haines

Rayanne Haines is a producer, podcaster, educator and award-winning poet. Her third collection, Tell The Birds Your Body Is Not A Gun (Frontenac House 2021), won the 2022 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for both the BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award and the ReLit Award. Her poetic memoir, What Kind of Daughter? (Frontenac House 2024), was shortlisted for the 2024 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Rayanne hosts the Crow Reads podcast, is the President of the League of Canadian Poets, and an Assistant Professor at MacEwan University. She teaches and writes with vulnerability as a guiding force.