About Brittany Rainsdon

Speculative fICTION Author

Brittany’s Story

Brittany Rainsdon grew up as the only girl in a family with four brothers. She’s reversing that trend with her own children—three girls and one boy. In 2008, Brittany graduated with her RN from Brigham Young University-Idaho. She received her BSN in 2010. Brittany has worked in both medical/surgical and rehabilitation specialties, but she currently enjoys work as a stay-at-home mom.

Brittany started writing at a young age, penning poems and stories, and filling an overstuffed nightstand with spiral notebooks, pens, and floppy disks (yes, those were still a thing in 2007). On entering college, Brittany lost touch with her writing and didn’t come back to it for several years.

After having her third child in 2015 and needing a creative outlet, her passion for writing reignited. Once she found the Writers of the Future Contest, Brittany decided to enter every quarter until she won… and after 16 consecutive entries she did.

Brittany’s first published story, “Perfectly Painted Lies,” appeared in Deep Magic, Spring 2021 and was republished in The Best Of Deep Magic Volume 2. Brittany’s work also appears in Writers of the Future Volume 37 as a published finalist and in Writers of the Future Volume 38 as a contest winner.

Eventually, Brittany would like to expand her speculative fiction stories into novels, but she is currently enjoying short form. Brittany lives with her husband and four children near the Snake River in Idaho, where she swears it looks like a wintered Narnia for nearly half the year. She has many pairs of fuzzy socks.