Andrew Boyd (born 1962) is an American author, humorist, and veteran of creative campaigns for social change.

During a year off from University, he travelled to California where he attended his first nonviolence training in preparation for a big civil disobedience protest at the Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons facility.

In 2018, Andrew was co-editor of the follow-up toolkit, Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South (OR Books, 2018).

[7] His most recent work I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor was published in 2023.

[9][10] The collection of 12 short essays was turned into a travelling performance about climate change, 12 Characters in Search of an Apocalypse: On the Road, that started in the UK and has spread to numerous other countries.