Alana Cloud-Robinson is an essayist and novelist from Los Angeles, California. Under the pseudonym A.C. Robinson, she creates raw, confessional work that seeks to bind author and reader with a strong adhesive of shared thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Her subject matter ranges from mental health trials and relationship tribulations to social discourse and personal soothsaying about the future of humankind.

Cloud-Robinson’s greatest hope is to communicate in a way that feels accessible—removing lofty intellectual barriers and confines in pursuit of connection, humor, and simplicity while still painting intricate pictures through the beauty of the written word.

The Artists Are Frightened, her first collection of poetry, was self-published in 2022.