S. R. Crickard lives in Ohio with a husband, some children, a bunch of dying plants, and a collection of taxidermy and animal bones. After a career as a caseworker specializing in senior care, she now specializes in collecting homeschool curricula and then making up her own worksheets anyway. When she isn't running, reading, or searching for lepidoptera in the woods, she is writing down characters who search for the good, true, and beautiful in unexpected places. Her fiction was featured in the 2022 anthology, For the Good of the Realm, and Misshelved Magic is her debut novel.