Moira Crone is a widely published short story writer and novelist. She was born and raised in Goldsboro, North Carolina a small town in tobacco country. She left at 17 to attend UNC and Smith College, and later studied writing at Johns Hopkins University.
In 2009, she received the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers for the body of her work. The prize citation, written by Allan Gurganus with Doris Betts, states: “Moira Crone’s interest in things spiritual has led her work to be wittily described as “Southern Gnostic.” In books like What Gets Into Us, Period of Confinement, and Dream State, Crone charts a zone of family resemblance and family claustrophobia. Her work can be hilarious in dealing with contemporary moral relativism… She is a fable maker with a musical ear, a plentitude of nerve, and an epic heart for her beleaguered, if often witty characters.”
In 2015, The Ice Garden received the Gold Medal from the Independent Pubisher Awards for fiction Southeast. In 2013, her novel, The Not Yet, was short listed for the Philp K.Dick Award, for paperback original science fiction novel of year.
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