Antonia Crane is the author of the memoir Spent which is being published in France this year. PRISM International magazine named Crane the grand prize winner of their 2019 creative nonfiction award for her essay “How to Dig a Ditch.” Her screenplay about the labor union in San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Peepshow effort earned a San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant in screenwriting.

She has written for The New York Times, The Believer, The Toast, Playboy, Los Angeleno, Cosmopolitan, Salon.com, The Huffington Post, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, DAME, PULP, The Los Angeles Review, Quartz: The Atlantic Media, Bustle, Medium and lots of other places. Crane is a recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Community Service & Activism award, and she has long been a champion for the rights of sex workers.

She teaches memoir and essay writing at UCLA Extension and can be found raising hell in Los Angeles with the Soldiers of Pole, a labor union of strippers fighting against discrimination, racism and wage theft in the clubs.

www.antoniacrane.com

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