​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.

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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.