About
LANA REEVES is from O'ahu, Hawai'i. She received her B.A. with Honors from Harvard University, where she received summa cum laude on her thesis of original poetry and the Edward Eager Memorial Prize for best undergraduate creative writing. At Harvard, she was advised by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
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Simultaneous to her Harvard degree, Lana studied composition and songwriting at the Berklee College of Music. Her compositions and sonic essays integrate elements of her classical music training with spoken word and "found sounds," or new MIDI instruments created from encounters in the real world.
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Following her graduation from Harvard, Lana spent a year living in Madrid studying Latin American literature. She is a graduate of the Middlebury Language School of Spanish, and she has a scholarly interest in Latin American postcolonial poetry and short stories. Her academic research is focused on the development of cross-cultural scholarship and coalitions between American-occupied island nations, including Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. She is also interested in the revitalization of traditional indigenous agriculture as a method of economic sovereignty and climate mitigation.
Lana's poems are published or forthcoming in Beloit, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Online, Southern Humanities Review, Meridian, Denver Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry, and was named a finalist for the 2025 Iowa Review Award and the 2025 Ploughshares Emerging Writers' Contest. She is a 2026 Kundiman Fellow, and her work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is currently a Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Penguin in 2027.
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Lana is represented by Noelle Falcis Math at Transatlantic Literary Agency.