Bio
Alanna Weissman is a third-generation native New Yorker. She recently received her MFA in fiction from New York University, where she taught introductory creative writing, and she also holds an MS from Columbia Journalism School and a BA in English and art from Colgate University. She is currently an assistant nonfiction editor at Bellevue Literary Review and previously spent four years on staff at Washington Square Review, where she variously held the roles of fiction editor, nonfiction editor, and assistant managing editor. In total, she has roughly a decade of editing experience.
She lives with Crohn's disease.
Alanna is at work on a novel and a short story collection. For freelance and professional inquiries, additional information is available upon request.
She lives with Crohn's disease.
Alanna is at work on a novel and a short story collection. For freelance and professional inquiries, additional information is available upon request.
Awards
Finalist, Anthony Veasna So Scholarship in Fiction (2024)
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
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