Iliana Demas was born and raised in Sacramento, California. She is currently a senior at Interlochen Arts Academy. She has received Silver and Gold medals from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, been recognized as a YoungArts winner, won Albion College’s Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Contest, and will be published in DePaul’s Blue Book: Best American High School Writing 2025, among other accolades. She will attend Northwestern University in the fall.