Alana Saab is a Portuguese-Lebanese-American author and award-recognized screenwriter based in NYC. Her debut novel, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me (Vintage Books) came out June 2024. This novel explores depersonalization, derealization, trauma, the climate crisis, queerness and more through an experimental, metamodern approach. She has an MFA in Fiction Writing from The New School, a Master's in Psychology in Education from Columbia University and a BA from NYU.
Saab writes about the interplay between conscious and unconscious existence, the seen and the unseen, while exploring themes of mental health, trauma, queerness and the transcendent. She is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University. She also teaches writing workshops to survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking and sexual assault through the non-profit Here There and Everywhere.
SELECT EVENTS
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How Humor Can be Literary and Political Panel at AWP Conferences, Los Angeles
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Author Talk at NYPL's Tompkins Square Library, NYC
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Pride and Literature: Celebrating LGBTQ+ Stories Panel at RJ Julia
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Please Stop Trying to Leave Me Book Launch at The Strand Bookstore, NYC
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Queer Arab Women Panel at The Strand Bookstore, NYC
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A Literary Reprieve: Aid for Turkey and Syria at Asian Art Archive, BK
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Epiphany Mag's Illusions Issue at Black Spring Books, BK
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Here, There and Everywhere's Holiday Benefit
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TNS After Hours, KGB Bar
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Reading at “Women and Water” fundraising event hosted by Weaving Worlds to raise money for Mama Nadada and clean water initiatives in Africa
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The Minetta Review’s “Poetry Reading Series” at the NYPL’s Jefferson Market Library
