Andrea Lawlor is an American author and winner of the 2020 Whiting Award for Fiction for their novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl.
[1] Lawlor attended Fordham University in the early 1990s, where they involved themselves in activism, including starting the first lesbian and gay group on campus, for which they and their friends received death threats, and joining the Pink Panthers, which patrolled the Village and protected LGBT people from homophobic attacks.
[2] Lawlor came to writing aged 30[1] and took 15 years to complete their debut novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl.
[1] Lawlor teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts,[3][2] and is a fiction editor for Fence.
[2] Lawlor's best friend, Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox, lives with the family.