Alison Lanier is a Providence-based writer currently working at CD Projekt RED on Project Sirius, a title in the Witcher IP.
Most recently, she completed a Master’s in Comparative Media Studies from MIT. Her research focuses on how virtual bodies are imagined in digital spaces, particularly in regard to gender.
She studied creative writing and film at Wellesley College and in 2019 completed an M.F.A. in fiction from University of Massachusetts Boston. Between 2015 and 2018 she attended Yale Writers’ Conference and Colgate Writers’ Conference for short stories and novel writing. Her fiction has been awarded The Charlotte Reese Prize for Creative Writing and appears in Emerging Fiction Writers of Massachusetts anthology from Z Publishing.
Her critical essays and reviews have appeared at Ms. Magazine, The Establishment, Bust, Critical Flame, and elsewhere.
In 2017, she received The Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poetry appears in Origins Journal, Burning Word, Daphne, and elsewhere.
She created and edited the film and media section of Atticus Review from 2015 to 2019. She assists at AGNI Magazine and is one of the founding editors of Mortar Magazine.
She votes with the Boston Online Film Critics Association.
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