Andrew Joseph White is a trans, autistic, best-selling author from Virginia, where he grew up falling in love with monsters and wishing he could be one too. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University in 2022. His debut novel, Hell Followed With Us, was a William C. Morris Award Finalist, and his second, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, received a 2024 Stonewall Honor. Compound Fracture is his third novel.
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Andrew Joseph White (he/him) grew up in Virginia and began writing before he could actually write, offering scribbled paper to his parents with demands that they read the illegible nonsense back to him. After drafting several novels in middle and high school, he attended George Mason University for his bachelor's and master's in creative writing.
He is the author of three New York Times bestselling horror novels for teens and young adults: Hell Followed With Us (a William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist), The Spirit Bares Its Teeth (a 2024 Stonewall Honor), and Compound Fracture. His work focuses on the intersection of transgender and autistic identity through the lens of horror, monstrosity, violence, and rage. His upcoming novels include his adult debut You Weren't Meant to be Human (2025), and two more YA novels, You're No Better (2026) and Beast//Warden (2027).
Andrew has settled just outside of Washington, D.C. with his wife, their cat Poppy, and a library's worth of books. When he's not writing, he is either hogging the Nintendo Switch, building LEGOs, rewatching his favorite YouTube video essays, or spamming the group chat with incoherent, irony-poisoned Gen Z memes.