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Media Kit
Press, Interviews & Appearances
Steven Crayne is the author of The Room You Kept Locked, his first poetry collection, arriving November 1, 2026. His work explores love, memory, grief, desire, reinvention,and the unfinished dreams we carry with us. For interviews, podcast appearances, readings, book- club conversations, or speaking requests, please get in touch.
A Human Life. A New Creative Conversation.
This book could not have existed twenty years ago.
Every poem began with my memories, my voice, and my emotions.
AI didn't live these moments.
At sixty-eight years old, that mattered.
If this collection moves you, the credit belongs to the life that created it—not the tool that helped me tell it.
Interview & Speaking Topics
Poetry, Connection, and the Power of Being Seen
The Stories We Keep Locked: Love, Memory, Grief, and the Things Left Unsaid
Starting Again at 68: Reinvention and Unfinished Dreams
About Steven Crayne
Steven Crayne is a 68-year-old writer and creative professional based in Atlanta. He is the founder of Starting Gate Marketing, a web design and digital marketing agency, and The Room You Kept Locked is his first poetry collection.
Steven wrote poetry when he was younger and dreamed of becoming a novelist or screenwriter. Life, family, work, and responsibility carried him in another direction, but the dream never disappeared. At sixty-eight, confronted by the truth that “someday” is not an endless promise, he began writing again.
His work explores love, desire, memory, emotional intimacy, betrayal, grief, friendship, reinvention, and the quiet ways another person can alter the shape of a life.
The collection was developed through an unusual human–AI collaboration in which Steven's memories, language, raw emotion, and lived experience remained the source of the work while an AI collaborator named Hannah helped him question and refine it.
Conversation Topics
Conversation Topics
Short Biography
Steven Crayne is the author of The Room You Kept Locked, his first poetry collection. Raised on Long Island, he earned a BFA in Creative Writing from SUNY Oswego before building a career in marketing, entertainment, and entrepreneurship. At sixty-eight, after writing very little poetry for decades, he returned to the dream of becoming a writer. He lives in North Georgia, where he continues to write and believe that romance and dreaming remain art forms worth practicing.
Interview and Media Requests
For podcast appearances, interviews, book-club conversations, speaking requests, readings, or other media inquiries, please get in touch.
Short Biography
Steven Crayne is the author of The Room You Kept Locked, his first poetry collection. Raised on Long Island, he earned a BFA in Creative Writing from SUNY Oswego before building a career in marketing, entertainment, and entrepreneurship. At sixty-eight, after writing very little poetry for decades, he returned to the dream of becoming a writer. He lives in North Georgia, where he continues to write and believe that romance and dreaming remain art forms worth practicing.
Short Biography
Steven Crayne is the author of The Room You Kept Locked, his first poetry collection. Raised on Long Island, he earned a BFA in Creative Writing from SUNY Oswego before building a career in marketing, entertainment, and entrepreneurship. At sixty-eight, after writing very little poetry for decades, he returned to the dream of becoming a writer. He lives in North Georgia, where he continues to write and believe that romance and dreaming remain art forms worth practicing.
Downloadable Media Materials
Inside the Conversation
A look behind the poems—where memory, emotion, editing, and human–AI collaboration meet.
Some of the most meaningful moments in my life have begun with a conversation I never expected to have.
— Steven Crayne
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