Andrea Lawlor

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.

Early life and education Lawlor attended Fordham University in the early 1990s, where they involved themself 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. and a CLMP Firecracker Award in 2018, and won the 2020 Whiting Award for Fiction following republication by Penguin Random House.

Personal life Lawlor is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. Lawlor's best friend, Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox, lives with the family.