Moira Crone (born 1952) is an American fiction author. She was born in the tobacco country in eastern North Carolina. She is the author of three collections of short fiction and a novel.
Crone's stories have been classified as "Southern Gnostic", and as exemplifying the spirit of the new south. Her latest collection What Gets Into Us recreates the life of a small town in the Carolinas, as seen across racial and class lines over a period from the 1950s to the present. Her work has been compared to Flannery O'Connor and Sherwood Anderson.
Moira Crone lives in New Orleans and is a professor at Louisiana State University where she served as director of the MFA program. She is a past winner of the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and has subsequently served as one of its judges. In 2009 she was awarded the Robert Penn Warren Award in Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers in recognition of her body of work. In the citation, Allan Gurganus wrote, "Moira Crone is a fable maker with a musical ear, a plenitude of nerve, and epic heart."
Crone's daughter, Anya Kamenetz, is a journalist and author.
Crone is married to Rodger Kamenetz, an author who is also a professor at LSU.