Moira Crone, writer and painter, is the author of six books of 
fiction. Awarded the Robert Penn Warren Prize for the body of her work from the fellowship of Southern Writers, she has been honored with major fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the NEA and the Atlas Program. Her dystopian novel
The Not Yet, taught widely in the US and Europe as a classic of
Eco-Futurism , was a finalist for the 2013 Philip Dick Award for paperback science fiction novel of the year and was recently released in a new edition . She has won the gold medals for best short story and best novella from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. This year, she was judge of the novella competition.
One of the founders and former director of the MFA Program at LSU, she has also lectured in Spain, Mexico, Czech Republic, and in universities throughout the US.
She began a studio practice in painting/collage in 2018, and has since exhibited in four one- and two-woman shows and more than 20 group and juried shows in Norfolk, Los Angeles, New Orleans and other cities in the Gulf South.