Lynn Crawford was born and grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, where she began writing, drawing, and painting. She went to Henry Ford Community College and then the University of Michigan-Dearborn where she was editor of the school newspaper and literary arts journal and earned a B.A. in English with honors. In the mid-1970s she ran away with the circus-Theatre Group of Ann Arbor. In Ann Arbor, she continued writing, went to graduate school, met her long-time partner, and began her practice as a clinical social worker. In 1984, she moved to San Francisco, where she died in 2017. Lynn studied and practiced Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, shamanism, and Jungian psychology. She read widely, wrote, made visual art, loved, and was beloved. She was a loyal friend and daughter, a great cook, a hilarious wit, and raconteur. Her work has been published in Sinister Wisdom, The Bay Guardian, Inquiring Mind, and Tricycle.
