Andrea Routley | |
Occupation: | short story writer, magazine editor |
Language: | English |
Nationality: | Canadian |
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Years Active: | 2010s-present |
Andrea Routley is a Canadian writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] Her short story collection Jane and the Whales was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014.[2] Her short stories appear in Canadian literary magazines such as Geist and The Fiddlehead Review.[3]
She was a founder of the LGBT literary magazine Plenitude[1] and of the Sunshine Coast's (Canada) Read Out Loud LGBT reading series,[4] and was editor of the 2010 anthology Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women.[5] In 2020, her book This Unlikely Soil was shortlisted for the Malahat Review Novella Prize.[6]
During the 2022-23 winter, Routley was a writer-in-residence at the Haig-Brown House of the Campbell River Museum on Vancouver Island, where she planned to finish a new novel.[7]