Tad Crawford is an author, publisher, and attorney whose fiction explores grief, guilt, forgiveness, love, family, myth, and the search for meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He grew up in the artists’ colony of Woodstock, New York, studied economics at Tufts, and graduated from Columbia Law School. He later founded Allworth Press, which became an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing. His career has also included extensive work on behalf of artists and creative professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crawford is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and has published fiction and nonfiction across several decades. His novels include A Woman in the Wild<\/em>, On Wine-Dark Seas<\/em>, A Floating Life<\/em>, and The Cave of Forever<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This blog focuses primarily on the questions inside Tad’s fiction: what people carry from the past, how families survive rupture and absence, what forgiveness asks of us, what home means after long separation, and how myth and wilderness can reveal parts of ourselves that ordinary life keeps hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n