Ange Crawford

Ange Crawford (she/her) is a queer, autistic writer, editor and PhD candidate living on unceded Wurundjeri land. She writes across genres and enjoys blurring boundaries between them. Ange's debut contemporary young adult novel, How to Be Normal, won the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize, and was released in March 2025. Ange also recently contributed an experimental essay to Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Non-fiction by Autistic Writers (UQP). In her doctoral research at RMIT, she is exploring gestural writing and porous authorship as ways of creating a sense of ambiance in creative writing. She has a background in the publishing industry and enjoys experimenting with the forms and spaces of the book.