Education
She has an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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Alana Capria
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She is the author of the short story collection Wrapped in Red (Montag Press, 2014), novel Hooks and Slaughterhouse (Montag Press, 2013), and the chapbooks Organ Meat, Killing Maine (Turtleneck Press, 2012) and "Lilith" (dancing girl press, 2015). Her style can be described as Feminist Horror and merges fantastical narrative with historical references, as well as poetry. Capria"s books were part of an art exhibition called Post Partum Party at Rhombus Space, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn in 2014.
Foreign the exhibit, she joined other writers in reading from their latest books
Capria read from Organ Meat, Killing Maine during the 2012 Boog City Poetry & Music Festival in Brooklyn. Capria was a regular contributor with the literary groups Mighty Mercury and the Step Chamber.
Her most recent books were published with the micro niche publishing group Montag Press, an Oakland, California based collective that is distributed by Social Democratic Party of Germany Small Press Distribution. Wrapped in Red was illustrated by Katerina Lanfranco.
Hooks and Slaughterhouse was illustrated by Rita Okusako.
Capria has published her work extensively since 2009.
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Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.