Raye Anderson is a Scots Canadian who spent many years running theatre schools and presenting creative arts programmes for arts organizations, notably at the Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg. She now calls Manitoba's Interlake home, where she is part of a thriving arts community. She has published seven books; five in the Roxanne Calloway Mystery series--And We Shall Have Snow (shortlisted for the 2021 CWC Best Crime First Novel and the 2021 WILLA Literary Award for Original Softcover Fiction), And Then Is Heard No More, Down Came the Rain, Sing a Song of Summer, and Had a Great Fall; and two in the Elspeth Laird Mystery Series--The Dead Shall Inherit (shortlisted for the 2025 CWC Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery) and No Shelter for the Wicked. Her work has taken her across Canada, from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast, and as far north as Churchill and Yellowknife, as well as to the West Indies and her native Scotland.