Lena Crown is an emerging writer from Oakland, California. She received her B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies with a minor in writing from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where she continued to live and write for two years. She was a frequent contributor to ALIVE Magazine, and her nonfiction and flash is published or forthcoming in JMWW, The Millions, The Forge, Sonora Review, No Contact, The Offing, and Entropy, among others.
Content by Lena Crown
Nonfiction,
Thirteen Ways of Looking
I. From above There’s a car in the river, the boy repeats, pointing. I stand beside B at the window opposite, clutching the sleeve of his denim jacket and gazing out at the county suburbs that sprawl westward six hundred feet below, the houses like spilled pills. It’s my first time inside the Gateway Arch, […]
Nonfiction,
Yesterday’s Enemies
I felt as if I were glimpsing the making of a movie I had seen a thousand times before—the boom microphone crowding into the frame for an instant, the wide canvas of blue sky suddenly wheeled into the wings. I peered through the doorway to the living room and found Mario seated on his reclining chair, absorbed in the copy of Clarín splayed before him, his glasses clinging to the tip of his nose.