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]
Andrea Lawlor | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Fordham University |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (2020) |
| Partner | Bernardine Mellis |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | |
| www | |
Early life and education edit
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] They were a member of ACT UP and lost friends to AIDS.[3] They said it was through this kind of "radical organising" that they "really ... came into queer life".[2]
Career edit
Lawlor came to writing aged 30[1] and took 15 years to complete their debut novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl.[4][5][2] The novel, when first published by Rescue Press, was a finalist for both a Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature[3][6] and a CLMP Firecracker Award in 2018,[7] and won the 2020 Whiting Award for Fiction following republication by Penguin Random House.[1]
Lawlor teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College in Hadley, Massachusetts,[3][2] and is a fiction editor for Fence.[8]
Personal life edit
Lawlor is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.[9][5] They live in Massachusetts with their partner, filmmaker Bernardine Mellis, and their child.[2] Lawlor's best friend, Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox, lives with the family.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b c Cranfield, David (25 March 2020). "Queer author Andrea Lawlor just won a Whiting Award. It's been a long, gratifying road". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Needham, Alex (5 April 2019). "Andrea Lawlor: 'I feel that every good thing in my life has come from being queer'". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ a b c Anderson-Minshall, Jacob (29 July 2019). "Writer Andrea Lawlor Is a Worthy Successor to Virginia Woolf". Advocate. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ a b Haldeman, Peter (24 October 2018). "The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ a b Parkinson, Hannah Jane (6 May 2019). "Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor – urgent and evocative". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ Boureau, Ella (6 March 2018). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ "2018 Firecracker Award Finalists Announced". Publishers Weekly. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Foundation, Poetry (14 March 2013). "Notes from the Fence Family Brunch, Part 2 (AWP 2013, Boston) by Hannah Gamble". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Nolan, Megan (30 May 2019). "'TERFs? I don't think they're either radical or feminist'". Huck. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
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