Lane Michael Stanley
Fiction
North Hollywood, CA
Lane Michael Stanley is the recipient of the Schumann Family Fellowship for Art + Well-being.
Lane Michael Stanley is a transgender writer and filmmaker whose work explores queerness, class, restorative justice, grief, and healing. His writing has appeared/is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Foglifter, Brevity, and elsewhere. Lane’s films and plays have been presented by 35 film festivals and 21 theaters in 25 states and four countries, and shown in soup kitchens, meditation gardens, addiction treatment centers, and San Quentin State Prison. He is a Tin House Reading Fellow for 2025-2026, and his writing has been supported by Ragdale, Tofte Lake Center, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Atticus Hotel, Kenyon Review, and Lambda Literary. Lane was the NEA-funded 2023-2024 Resident Artist with Mission First Housing Group and coLAB Arts, and is the 2024-2025 Artist-in-Residence with Pathway Home of Los Angeles County. Lane has won awards from the Film Fund, Baltimore City Paper, and Creative Baltimore Fund; received film grants from Art with Impact, Queen Anne’s County Cultural Arts Division, Maryland State Arts Council, and Austin Cultural Arts Division; been commissioned by Dance Camera West and Ground Floor Theatre; and holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at Austin. www.lanemichaelstanley.com.