​Alana Saab is a NYC-based, Portuguese-Lebanese author and screenwriter.

She has an MFA in fiction writing from The New School, a Master's in psychology from Columbia University and a BA from NYU.

Her debut novel, Please Stop Trying to Leave Me (Vintage Books) came out June 2024. This experimental novel explores depersonalization, derealization, trauma, the climate crisis, queerness and more.

She is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University.