Marisa Crawford

Marisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Diary (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), Reversible, and The Haunted House. She is the editor of The Weird Sister Collection (Feminist Press, 2024), and co-editor, with Megan Milks, of We Are The Baby-Sitters Club: Essays & Artwork from Grown-Up Readers. Her next project, a poetry collaboration with Morgan Parker, is forthcoming from Bloof Books in Fall of 2024. Marisa’s writing about feminism, art and pop culture has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, BUST, VICE, Hyperallergic, Bitch, Ms., The Rumpus, Polyester Zine and elsewhere. Marisa is the creator and editor-in-chief of WEIRD SISTER, a website and organization that explores the intersections of feminism, literature, and pop culture, and co-host of the 90s rock podcast All Our Pretty Songs. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

“Marisa Crawford on Why Feminist Lit and 1990s Girl Culture Need More Critical Attention,” Literary Hub

“Creating Community in a Long Line of Feminist Literary Spaces: A Conversation with Marisa Crawford,” The Rumpus

“Poet and Literary Activist Marisa Crawford Is Taking Girls Seriously,” Ms.

"Are You There, Judy Blume? It’s Us, the Generation of Writers You Inspired,” Glamour

“The High, Low, Weird, Deep, and Deeply Online Machinations of Girl Worlds,” Peach Mag