Lena Crown's work has appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, Gulf Coast, Narratively, North American Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Peter Bullough Foundation, and PEN/Faulkner, and she now serves as the 2023-24 Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Nonfiction at Colgate University.