Bio
Alanna Weissman is a third-generation native New Yorker. She is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at New York University, where she taught introductory creative writing and serves on the editorial board of the Washington Square Review; she also holds an MS from Columbia Journalism School and a BA from Colgate University, where she studied English and art. She has more than six years of full-time editing experience.
For freelance and professional inquiries, a full résumé is available upon request.
For freelance and professional inquiries, a full résumé is available upon request.
Awards
Nominated for Best of the Net (2020)
Longlist, The Masters Review Fall Fiction Contest (2019)
Peter Keller Editing Award, Columbia Journalism School (2015)
Merit Winner in Writing – Short Story, National YoungArts Foundation (2010)
Silver Medal for Poetry (2009) and Journalism (2008), Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Longlist, The Masters Review Fall Fiction Contest (2019)
Peter Keller Editing Award, Columbia Journalism School (2015)
Merit Winner in Writing – Short Story, National YoungArts Foundation (2010)
Silver Medal for Poetry (2009) and Journalism (2008), Scholastic Art & Writing Awards