Andrea Long Chu is an essayist and critic at New York magazine. She was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for her work at New York. Her nonfiction book Females was published by Verso in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her writing has been reprinted in Best American Essays 2022 and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019. Her writing has appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Bookforum, Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, 4Columns, and Jewish Currents.
She holds a M.A. in Comparative Literature from New York University, and she has published on academic subjects in differences, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Women & Performance, and Transgender Studies Quarterly.