Alana Folsom (she/her) earned a BA in English from Bates College and an MFA in poetry from Oregon State University. While earning her MFA, Alana co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of 45th Parallel, OSU's literary magazine. Her work has been published in the Missouri Review, The Journal, The Believer, and others, and she was named a semi-finalist in the 2018 92Y Discovery/ Boston Review Poetry Contest. She also runs an Instagram account about her favorite dirty lil poems @nsfwpoems.

Originally from Los Angeles, she now lives in Eugene, OR.

Alana writes poetry that explores the intersections of grief, female sexuality, and the current political landscape. Borrowing from Carolyn Forche's concept of "social poetry," Alana writes from a place where the personal is magnified into the political, and the political is collapsed into the personal. She believes poetry should be both accessible and uncomfortable.