Alana Dunlop is a writer based in Montreal, Canada / Tiohtià:ke. Her work has been published in ROOM, THIS Magazine, and Contemporary Verse 2, among others, and she was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her short story “The Big Thing.” In 2023, she received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to write her debut short story collection exploring queer subcultures and art Montreal. She is currently working towards her MA in Creative Writing & English Literature at Concordia University.