She was featured in a bodypainting layout as a canvas for bodypaint artist Joanne Gair who is in her tenth year of producing bodypaint art for the Swimsuit Issue. She was part of a record-setting class of seven rookie Swimsuit Issue models along with Jessica Gomes, Melissa Haro, Yasmin Brunet, Melissa Baker, Jeisa Chiminazzo and Jarah Mariano. Grant attended Menchville High School and graduated in 1999. She now lives Harlem in New York, New York, but she considers Newport News, Virginia to be her hometown. Although Quiana was highly sought after for modeling at age 14,[citation needed] she stayed in school until age 16. At age 16, while her mother underwent a series of eye surgeries, she served as her mother's eyes. Her mother had Chorioretinitis and could not even recognize Quiana until she was 13. Her parents are Tony and Regina Grant, and she has a younger brother.