Alana Craib (they/she) is a writer and artist from upstate New York. Her work is often concerned with matters of love, green burial, queer bodies, mothers and grandmothers, ghosts and memory, the kitchen, and the bog. Their writing has most recently been featured in Cleaver Magazine, The Plentitudes, Motif, Antiphony, december, Creation Magazine, and The Tiny Journal. Alana is a recipient of the 2024 Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize and the 2025 Feldman Prize in Fiction. They hold a BA in Creative Writing and Literary History from Sarah Lawrence College. Alana currently lives in Providence, RI, where she is an MFA candidate in Fiction at Brown University. In their free time, Alana enjoys playing on the guitar, collecting sentimental objects, collage, and dozing. You can find more work at alana-craib.com as well as @dozy.girl on Instagram.