Moira Crone is a widely published short story writer and novelist. A native of Eastern North Carolina she now resides in New Orleans. Her works have been published in numerous magazines, including: The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, North American Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, New Orleans Review, and Habitus. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Oxford American, Beliefnet, Altnet, Family Circle, Working Mother, American Homestyle, and other websites and journals. She has been included in several anthologies, such as Best from the Ohio Review, 25th Anniversary Anthology, Smith Voices; Various Gifts, American Made, New Stories by Southern Women, Wide Awake in the Pelican State, Intersections, and Best of LSU Fiction.