Rayne Lacko - YA Fiction, Social-Emotional Learning
Rayne Lacko writes about emotions, creativity, and the healing power of music in Dream Up Now: The Teen Journal for Creative Self-Discovery (2020) and the YA novels, The Secret Song of Shelby Rey (2025), and A Song For The Road (2019),
an Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist. A social-emotional learning
specialist with a master's in humanities, she lectures on writing and
literature, advocates for social justice, and travels
for inspiration. Rayne's short stories and poetry have appeared in
international publications and anthologies. She lives on a forested
island in Washington, US, where the trees whisper story ideas.www.raynelacko.com
