Lena Crown is a writer, editor, and educator from Oakland, California. She received her B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies with a minor in writing from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where she continued to live and write as a frequent contributor to ALIVE Magazine. Her nonfiction and flash is published or forthcoming in Guernica, Narratively, North American Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, JMWW, The Millions, The Forge, Sonora Review, No Contact, The Offing, Entropy, and Porter House Review, among others. Her poetry appears in Whale Road Review, No Contact, and Variant Lit.
She received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from George Mason University, where she taught creative writing and served as the Nonfiction Editor at phoebe journal. Previously, she read for CRAFT and River Styx. She currently splits her time as a writer for Folklife, the digital publication at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, as an editor for Autofocus Books, a small press, and as the Project Manager for the Author’s Corner program at The Inner Loop, a literary nonprofit.
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