Marolyn Krasner was born in downtown Los Angeles in 1974 and has lived in New Zealand since 2004. Her queer-focused stories, which have been published in several anthologies, are strategically crafted to make you laugh, or not. Her novelĀ The Radicals, about a feminist activist who is on probation for assaulting homophobes, was published in 2020. Marolyn lives in the Manawatu with her wife Ruth, two children and a small dog.