Elizabeth Crane is the author of That May Not Mean What You Think, coming from Northwestern University Press in April 2026. Crane is also the author of four collections of short stories, Turf, When the Messenger is Hot, All this Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This Happy to Enter, a memoir This Story Will Change, as well as two novels, We Only Know So Much and The History of Great Things. She teaches in the UCR-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program.