Their stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Passages North, Joyland, The Offing, No Tokens, The Florida Review, TriQuarterly, Lit Hub, Catapult, F(r)iction, and elsewhere. An attendee of the Tin House Workshop and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, as well as an American Short Fiction Merit fellow, Vermont Studio Center fellow, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference fellow, they currently live in San Diego with their wife and two children. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is their first novel and it was a January Indie Next Pick, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and LAMBDA Literary Award winner.

Their second novel, A Sharp Endless Need, came out through Dial Press on May 13, 2025. You can order it wherever you get your books: https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-sharp-endless-need-marisa-crane/21548723