Alana Craib is a writer and artist from Ithaca, 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.

Alana is a recipient of the 2024 Andrea K. Willison Poetry Prize and the 2025 Feldman Prize in Fiction. She is the first place winner of Creation Magazine ’s 2025 Poetry Postcard Contest.

In their free time, Alana enjoys playing on the guitar, collecting sentimental objects, collage and dozing.

She holds a BA in Creative Writing and Literary History from Sarah Lawrence College. Alana currently lives in Providence, RI, where she is an MFA student in Fiction at Brown University.