Faculty Accomplishments

Invited to serve as an Advisory Board member of the Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing & Publishing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center (2021-present)

Served as a Fiction Mentor for the Periplus Collective in 2023-2024.

Was an invited judge for a number of literary contests or prizes from 2021-2024, including for Lambda Literary, the Publishing Triangle, and the Columbia University's Undergraduate Fiction Prize.

Was an invited presenter at a number of conferences in 2024, including the CUNY Grad Center’s Rainbow Book Fair (New York, 2024), "Transfigured Flesh: Shapeshifting, Embodiment and the Nonhuman in Trans Narratives" and "Writing the Literary Sex Scene: Dethroning the Male Gaze" at the Association of Writers & Writing Program’s Annual Conference. (Kansas City, KS. 2024).

Was an invited reader at a number of series in 2023-2024, including the Faculty Reading Series at the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA 2023, 2024); the Visiting Writers Series at the UMass Amherst (Amherst, MA 2023); and T4T: Trans For Texts (Boston, MA 2024).

MacDowell Foundation Fellow, 2025

Ucross Foundation Fellow, 2024

Andrea Lawlor’s novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, was included in a NYT piece on The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature.

Was an invited panelist at a number of panels, including the University of California Irvine's Center for Storytelling's "Writing Sex: A Conversation about Writing” panel, moderated by Jonathan Alexander; and the Brooklyn Book Festival's "Beyond the Year of Trans Creativity," moderated by Riley McLeod. Moderated conversations with writers Jung Yun (Odyssey Bookshop), Megan Milks (Books Are Magic), Joss Lake (Books Are Magic), and Callum Angus (Odyssey Bookshop), among others. Was invited to read with Andrea Abi-Karam, hosted by Books Are Magic (Brooklyn).

Moderated conversation with the writer Jordy Rosenberg (UMass) for Grub Street's Writing Conference: "How I Wrote This".