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  • Lena Crown
  • Lena Crown
  • Graduate Student
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  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Creative writing, gender, affect, urban studies, environmental humanities
  • Field of Interest: Creative Writing Studies, Environmental Humanities, Gender & Sexuality, Global Anglophone, Poetry & Poetics, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
  • About:

    Lena Crown is a creative writer, literary scholar, editor and educator from Northern California. Her work is published or forthcoming in Guernica, Joyland, The Rumpus, Gulf Coast, Narratively, North American Review, Passages North, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Peter Bullough Foundation. She recently served as the PEN/Faulkner Writer in Residence and the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Nonfiction at Colgate University, and she now produces and hosts Awakeners, a Lit Hub Radio podcast about mentorship in the literary arts.
  • Undergraduate Courses Taught:

    Reading and Writing About Texts (Literature 201)

    Introduction to Creative Writing

    Introductory Creative Nonfiction

    Advanced Creative Nonfiction
  • Awards:

    “5 Writers on the Rise You Need to Read Right Now,” Narratively

    #1 Most-Read Story of the Year, Narratively

    Editor’s Choice, Narratively

    Colgate University Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Nonfiction, 2023-24

    2021 Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, Winner, CutBank

    2021 Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize, Honorable Mention, North American Review
  • Other Publications:

    “Help But Wonder,” Passages North, forthcoming

    “Surface Parking,” Grist, forthcoming

    “Telo,” The Rumpus

    “Boys Will Be,” Guernica

    “Solid Objects,” Hayden’s Ferry Review
  • Visiting Professorships :

    Colgate University Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Nonfiction, 2023-24
  • Education: Washington University in St. Louis (B.A.), George Mason University (MFA)