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Alexandra Dane
Writer
Writer
Alexandra Dane writes what lies deep in the marrow: life, disease, memory and hope — always hope. Her manuscript-in-progress explores coming of age, twice, at the mercy of cancer; once as a young caregiver for her mother and then as a patient herself.
Publications:
Good Printed Things: If Memory Serves: A Food Memory Anthology, 2026
"Brave Cake"
Swamp Pink
Finalist for the 2025 Swamp Pink Nonfiction Prize
The Leaving
The Sonora Review 2025
Twirling
Two Hawks Quarterly 2024
Bear
The Keep Things 2024
The Language of Flowers
Winner of the Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award from Bellingham Review 2023
Itch
River Teeth Beautiful Things 2022
Found. Well.
San Fedele Press American Writers Review 2020 (hardcover)
Somebody, Still.
Lunch Ticket
Last Days: The Bitter and The Sweet
The Writer’s Workshop Review, 2011
Read about the tiny big things on her blog
Publications:
Good Printed Things: If Memory Serves: A Food Memory Anthology, 2026
"Brave Cake"
Swamp Pink
Finalist for the 2025 Swamp Pink Nonfiction Prize
The Leaving
The Sonora Review 2025
Twirling
Two Hawks Quarterly 2024
Bear
The Keep Things 2024
The Language of Flowers
Winner of the Annie Dillard Creative Nonfiction Award from Bellingham Review 2023
Itch
River Teeth Beautiful Things 2022
Found. Well.
San Fedele Press American Writers Review 2020 (hardcover)
Somebody, Still.
Lunch Ticket
Last Days: The Bitter and The Sweet
The Writer’s Workshop Review, 2011
Instagram:@alexandradanewrites.com
Substack: alexandradane.substack.com
Alexandra Dane writes by the sea and when stuck, makes jam.