Lana Schwartz is a writer who was born and raised in New York City, where she continues to live today.

She's written for Ubisoft, The New Yorker, The Truth (a fiction podcast), Slate, Shondaland, InStyle, Hell Gate, Glamour, The Hairpin, Vulture, Mental Floss, Above Average, and The Toast; she’s currently a contributor to The Onion, and has also contributed to StarWipe (a vertical of The Onion), The Hard Times, and The Whiskey Journal.

She was previously a writer for the sketch teams 17:38 and Deathbird, whose show HINT: A Murder Mystery enjoyed a run at UCB NY in 2017. Her half hour play, Single Dead Female - a take on the true crime boom - ran through the Dream Up Festival in summer 2018 and was selected as a New York Times Critic's Pick.

Together with her high school best friend, Ilana Michelle Rubin, she created videos as one-half of Nanners Comedy. They also hosted the monthly variety show My Hometown, which was an official selection of The New York Television Festival in 2018 and went on to run at Union Hall. Additionally, their Annual Chanukahstravaganza regularly sells out and has been recommended by The New York Times, New York Magazine, NBC's Listen Up, TimeOut, and more. Lana occasionally performs stand up comedy - if someone asks nicely or simply if she feels like it.

Lana's animated short, Bookbag Bottom, won the Jury Award at Quickie Fest V in June 2018 and screened at the Picture Farm Film Festival in October 2022.

Her first book, Build Your Own Romantic Comedy: Pick Your Plot, Meet Your Man, and Direct Your Happily Ever After was released by Ulysses Press on March 17, 2020. It was named one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of the Year and called “a “brilliantly fun book you’ll want to explore again and again” by Entertainment Weekly.

Lana is available for hire for copywriting, ghostwriting, content writing, and more on a freelance basis.