Ilana Masad

ILANA MASAD is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism, and the author of two novels, Beings and All My Mother’s Lovers. She is co-editor, with Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais, of Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch The Bachelor.

Masad’s novel Beings won the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Speculative Fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and NPR.

Ilana was born in Los Angeles and grew up near Tel Aviv.

Ilana Masad’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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