Alana Siegel is a poet living in Upstate New York. Her full-length collection of poetry, Archipelago, is published by Station Hill Press. In 2019, she completed a Three Year Retreat in Vajrayana Buddhism at Pema Osel Ling. In 2023, she received a NYSCA Rural and Traditional Arts grant to write, direct and act in Persephone’s Dream, a 12 hour play and meditation weaving together agricultural and theatrical practices drawn from Noh Theater, The Patrons of the Orders of Husbandry, and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Recent prose and essays can be found in editions of The Swan.
