Alana S. Portero (Madrid, 1978) is a Spanish writer, poet, playwright and stage director.

She writes about culture, feminism and LGBT activism, with a special focus on trans women.

[5] Nowadays she collaborates with several Spanish publishers,[6] such as the magazine Agente Provocador, ElDiario.es, El Salto, SModa and Vogue España,[7] as well as on her own Patreon page.

[12] She has also collaborated in a number of collections of selected works such as La revuelta del pueblo cucaracha (2013), El descrédito (2013), Mundo Subterráneo (2015), Alcasseriana (2016), Vidas Trans (2019) or Asalto a Oz (2019).

Told in the voice of a girl trapped within the body of a boy, Bad Habit is a story of coming-of-age in working class Madrid.