Alaina Hammond is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, and visual artist. Her poems, plays, short stories, nonfiction, paintings, drawings and photographs have been published both online and in print. Her novelette “Jillian, Formerly Known as Frog Girl” was published by Bottlecap Press. Three of her flash fiction stories (Jane Passes The Bar Exam, To Serve In Retail Hell, As Numb As I Am) have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, all in 2025. Additionally, her microfiction piece “Muffin Or Something” was a Best Microfiction 2026 nominee (The Argyle Literary Magazine).

Here’s a recent interview with her on NUNUM magazine.

@alainaheidelberger on Instagram.

Medium: Photograph, taken in 2025 on an iPhone.