Ella Alexander

Ella Alexander is a graduate from Bard College and has a degree in creative writing. She has studied under Porochista Khakpour, Neil Gaiman, Rivka Galchen, and Wyatt Mason, and completed her senior thesis (a novella) under advisor Mary Caponegro. Ella currently works as a copywriter and script doctor. To date her work has appeared in a myriad of publications. Her essay, Who I Became at the Running of The Bulls (about participating in the Pamplona bull run as a backpacking teenager) at age 20, was published in 2017. She has published numerous other essays were published Entropy (about sexual assault), The Forward (about Jewish identity in 2020), and The Huffington Post (about face blindness and antisemitism respectively). Her debut novel, The Sleeping Land, has been published by Unnamed Press in February of 2025. She lives in Berlin, Germany.

THE SLEEPING LAND (Fiction, Published: Unnamed Press)

Surrounded by a looming forest with eerie silences and flickering shadows, Valerie, Kit, and Mark begin their dig under the eccentric and charismatic guidance of the venerable George Auberon. The excavation yields fascinating discoveries, and excitement grows among the team, but George’s true motivations soon reveal themselves to be much less noble than he originally let on. As each member of the party grapples with the complexities and the challenges of the dig, going deeper into the cave, a strange feeling sets in. Are they really alone out there? Or has George’s paranoid ambition gotten to them? A powerful debut with vast imaginative range, The Sleeping Land introduces a cast of memorable characters who must face a terrifying question: who controls the past when it comes back to life?

Rights Sold: North American English
Rights Available: World English and Translation
Agent: Zeynep Sen