Meet S.R. Crane
Born and bred in the American South, I’m a graduate of University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Creative Writing Program, an advocate for affordable housing and civil rights, and a writer who hopes more than anything to connect with the world around me.
I write stories where the unreal reveals something truer than reality. My work explores queerness, identity, and the fragile power of becoming, centering voices that don’t always get to be heard. Through strange magic and resistance, I seek to honor differences, to invite reflection, and to hold space for those still learning how to exist fully in the world. In every story, I am searching for connection, for transformation, for the beauty in surviving even when the world feels like it’s falling apart.
My characters are a reflection of parts of myself and parts of the world and people around me, an environment that curates so much good among all of the bad. It is my belief that, as an art form, writing is always political, and what we choose to say with the power of our words can change the world, one book, one chapter, one sentence at a time.