By Antonia Crane

Antonia Crane is a writer, teacher and Moth Story Slam Winner in Los Angeles. She is the author of the memoir Spent (Barnacle Books/Rare Bird Lit March, 2014). She was featured on Lisa Ling’s documentary, “This is Life” on CNN. Her other work can be found in Playboy , Cosmopolitan Magazine , The Rumpus , Dame Magazine , Salon , PANK magazine, Black Clock , The Believer , Frequencies , Slake , The Los Angeles Review , The New Black , The Heroin Chronicles and lots of other places. She the CNF editor at Word Riot and The Citron Review . She is at work on another memoir about running wild in Mumbai, India as a teenager.

  1. Heroes: Finding My Home in Addiction and Recovery Stories

    By Antonia Crane

    in The Butter

    Exactly twenty years ago, while I was on a 72-hour hold in a psych ward in San Francisco, a plump old hippie in all white asked me if I tried to kill myself. I laughed at him because I thought I had died. He smiled back and fondled his sandalwood beads. “No,” I said. I didn’t remember wanting to die as much as wanting to kill the feeling. I’d been tweaking for weeks and the…

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