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Andrea Lawlor teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College and edits fiction for Fence. Their novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl was a finalist for the Lambda Literary and CLMP Firecracker Awards.
Novelist Andrea Lawlor talks trans identity, the origins of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, and the future of queer literature.
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