Joyce Pellino Crane Biography
Joyce Pellino Crane took over the editorship of the Westford Eagle in April 2010 and ever since has devoted herself to chronicling the lives, victories and challenges of residents in the town of Westford, Mass. In June 2013, she also began editing the Littleton Independent. She views the stories she writes as future historic records to be preserved and archived.
In the previous decade, Pellino Crane covered national news from a local
perspective as a correspondent for the Boston Globe, weaving information about the economy, Hurricane Katrina, politics, Iran, and Iraq into stories about Main Street.
Her specialty is business writing, but she’s covered everything from breaking news to restaurant fare, while cultivating sources on local, regional and national levels. She is highly specialized in hyperlocal news reporting.
In 2008 she published her first essay on the Opinion page of Newsday,
and soon had a handful of essays published on the Boston Globe’sOp-Ed page.
Crane’s objective is to highlight the beauty of the human spirit, underscore moral
dilemmas, and explore emotional and philosophical quandaries.
She develops her stories around occurrences that usually go unnoticed, transforming a mundane event into a metaphorical journey: a lost watch spurs a memory of grief; a stranded baby crow lures a lonely boy.
Crane began writing for the Boston Globe as a technology columnist. Her
contributions have appeared in the Sunday Globe Magazine, as well as the Globe’s Metro, Business, LivingArts/Lifestyle, and regional sections.
She has written for Thomson Reuters, Crain Communications, American Business Journals, and IDG publications. Crane has covered technology, workplace, real estate, lifestyle, and retail industry stories, and she holds an MBA from Suffolk University in Boston, where she was the recipient of a merit-based Fellowship.
Crane is the single mother of two grown sons—both Eagle Scouts. Her elder son Christopher is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and her younger son Jesse-Paul is a rising college senior.
