Rangeley grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, moving north for law school to Washington, D.C., where she lives with her husband and two dogs. She has had varied careers, from prosecuting anti-trust violators to representing immigrants seeking asylum, to owning a rare bookstore. During a break from working, when she was home with her four children, she turned to writing women-focused novels. NO DEFENSE was published as a Wyatt Book for St. Martin’s Press. THINGS ARE GOING TO SLIDE was published as an e-book by Bev Editions, an indie e-book publisher.
Since completing REDWOOD SUMMER (Finalist Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Development Grant, Finalist Athena List, Semi-Finalist Tirota Finish Line Social Impact Script Competition, and accepted to Stowe Story Labs), Rangeley has written several other feature screenplays. EVERYBODY KNOWS, also an environmental drama, was a finalist for The NYWIFT Writers Lab 2020, funded by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, a semi-finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards (2020 Winter) and the 2020 Dallas International Film Festival’s (DIFF) Broaden Your Horizons Competition, and a winner in the Big Apple Film Festival (BAFF) Screenplay Competition (summer 2020). THINGS ARE GOING TO SLIDE, a romantic dramedy based on her novel of the same name, was a quarter-finalist in the 2020 CineStory 2020 Feature Retreat & Fellowship Contest.
She recently completed NO DEFENSE, a civil-rights drama based on her novel of the same name and is currently working on a World War II limited series, A DANGEROUS, GLAMOROUS JOB, based on the true story of Army flight nurses who crash landed in Nazi-occupied Albania. The pilot was a quarter-finalist in the ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition (2021), the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition (2021), and the Drama Screenplay Awards (Season 6, 2021).
Over the last decade, in addition to writing, she has taught in the civil advocacy and disability rights clinics at Washington College of Law, supervising law students focused on social and economic justice litigation.