here is a bio if you need it for something:

Andrea Lawlor is the author of a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016), and a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Rescue Press, 2017; Vintage, 2019; Picador UK, 2019). Their stories, essays, and poems have appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and The New York Times. They are the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, as well as fellowships from Lambda Literary, Radar Labs, the Ucross Foundation, and Macdowell Colony. They are an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Mount Holyoke College, and live in Western Massachusetts.

some things people have said about my work

• Harry Stecopoulos's "'Poetry City': Iowa City, Iowa" in Public Books (April 2025)

• "Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)" in Kirkus (April 2025)

• "The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature" in the NYT (June 2023)

• Elisa Gabbert’s “I Want to Ride a Dragon” in the London Review of Books (Aug 2019)

• Greta Lafleur’s “A Fairy’s Tale” in The Sydney Review of Books & Public Books (Jul 2019)

• Katie Da Cunha Lewin’s “Sexual shapeshifting celebration of being young and queer” in the Irish Times (Jul 2019)

• Juliet Jacques in the White Review (Jul 2019)

• Moss Pepe’s “Reading in the Place that Makes You Mad” in Close (Jul 2019)

• Sophie Whitehead’s “Sex, Smut and Shape-shifting” in The F Word (Jul 2019)

• “Queer Story 9” in the Tiny Narrative (Jun 2019)

• Cass Adair in Make (May 2019)

• Justine Hyde in the Saturday Paper (May 2019)

• Lauren O’Neill’s “Music Drives Gender-Play Novel ‘Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl’” at Noisey (Apr 2019)

• Katie Goh at the Skinny (Apr 2019)

• Leon Craig’s “New Forms of Old” in Brixton Review of Books (Apr 2019)

• Christy Olsen in MaximumRocknRoll (Apr 2019)

• Jeremiah Moriarty at Rain Taxi (Aug 2018)

• Amy Lee Lillard’s “Gender-Bent: On Andrea Lawlor’s ‘Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl’” at Entropy (Jun 2018)

• Kaitlyn Greenidge in Lenny Letter (May 2018)

• Kay Gabriel at the Believer's Logger (May 2018)

• Brian Blanchfield's “Trans and Transient” in Bookforum (Feb/Mar 2018)

• "Briefly Noted” in the New Yorker (Jan 2018)

• Maddie's review at Hedgehog Reviews (Jan 2018)

• Caitlin Coder at Peach Picks at Daily Public (Jan 2018)

• Michael Valinsky's "Gender-Bending the Body” at LARB (Nov 2017)

• Jenna Freedman at Lower East Side Librarian (Nov 2017)

• Monica Carter at Foreword (starred review) (Nov/Dec 2017)

• Booklist (Nov 2017)

• Sarah Fonseca at Lambda Literary (Nov 2017)

• Kirkus Reviews (starred) (Aug 2017)

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some things I’ve apparently said

• with Ellen Miller-Mack on Poet Talk (podcast)

• with Saraid de Silva at This Queer Book Saved My Life (podcast)

• with Graham Norton!!! on the Graham Norton Book Club, holy shit! (podcast)

• with Cameron Esposito at Queery (podcast)

• Queer Nonbinary Sex Revolution Now! with Conner Habib at Against Everything (podcast)

• with Neil Denny at Little Atoms (podcast)

• with Juliet Jacques at Suite 212 (podcast)

• Q+A at Powell’s blog with bonus book recs

• an interview with the awesome Megan Nolan at Huck!

• an interview with Kabir Karamchandani at the Oberlin Review

• a conversation with Amelia Abraham in Dazed

• a conversation with Spencer Quong at the Boston Review

• an interview with the lovely Alex Needham in the Guardian

• an interview in the freakin’ NYT (don’t read the comments)

• a conversation with BFF Jordy Rosenberg at the Millions

• a conversation with Hilary Plum at the LA Review of Books

• book recommendations at Shelf Awareness

• a conversation with Monica Carter at Foreword

• on being a writer at Lambda Literary

• on becoming a parent at Mutha

• on adopting my kid also at Mutha