Alana Massey is a writer and editor covering identity, culture, virtue, and vice. She wrote the book All the Lives I Want, and hopes you like it. Her writing appears in Elle, the Atlantic, the Guardian, New York Magazine, VICE, The New Republic, Pacific Standard, BuzzFeed, The New Inquiry, and more. She lives in the Catskills where she writes, reads, drinks champagne, and listens to pop music.
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