The lauded Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl has, in 20 years, gone from workshop exercise to new queer classic. Its author reflects on the remarkable journey.

Andrea Lawlor couldn't have predicted this journey for their electrifying debut novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, a provocative book soaked in the '90s queer scene about a bartender and ...

Texas Book Festival 2019: They’re Playing My Song Andrea Lawlor and Karen Tongson on music's doorway to self-discovery By Laura Jones, 10:30AM, Mon. Oct. 28, 2019 ...

Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, finalist for the Lambda Literary and CLMP Firecracker Awards, draws on a rich lineage of trans and queer narratives, from classical myths and ...

Andrea Lawlor, author of 'Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl,” and I spoke by phone a few hours before it was announced that the University of Iowa alum had garnered the prestigious Whiting ...

Even in the midst of a pandemic, the literary world still spins on its axis. On Wednesday, UI alum and fiction writer Andrea Lawlor was among 10 winners of the 35th annual Whiting Awards. Lawlor won ...

Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a celebration of being young and queer. The protagonist, a young man called Paul who can shapeshift his body at will, is by ...

UI grad Andrea Lawlor has been announced as one of the Whiting Award recipients for 2020. Other winners include Jia Tolentino and Ling Ma.

One of the many pleasures of Andrea Lawlor’s 2017 novel “Paul Takes The Form Of A Mortal Girl” is the realization I came to that this novel is more or less unreadable by a straight person. It’s ...

Andrea Lawlor is the author of “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. ... The Book Review Podcast: Each week, top authors and critics talk about the latest news in the literary world.