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 (Winner Sidewalk Film Festival, Finalist Alfred P. Sloan Athena List Development Grant, Finalist Athena List, Semi-Finalist Tirota Finish Line Social Impact Script Competition, The Golden Script Competition, and accepted to Stowe Story Labs), Rangeley has written several other feature screenplays. EVERYBODY KNOWS, also an environmental drama, was recently selected for the second round of consideration for the Sundance Development Tract. The script 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 is currently working on a World War II limited series, A DANGEROUS, GLAMOROUS JOB, based on the epic true story of thirteen Army flight nurses who crash landed in Nazi-occupied Albania. The pilot was a semi-finalist for the Stowe Story Labs/Maven Fellowship, the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition, the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards and 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). And, the recently completed feature screenplay based on the same events is a Quarter-Finalist in the CineStory Feature Retreat competition.
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.