Born in Chicago and now a resident of Vancouver Island, Andromeda Romano-Lax worked as a journalist and travel writer before turning to fiction. Her first novel, The Spanish Bow, was translated into eleven languages and chosen as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
Her next four novels, The Detour, Behave, Plum Rains (winner of the Sunburst Award), and Annie and the Wolves, reflect her diverse interest in the arts, history, science, and technology, as well as her love of travel. Starting with The Deepest Lake and continuing with her next novel, What Boys Learn (2026), Andromeda has swerved into the world of suspense fiction, although she continues to write across the genres. Her next book is a historical novel about Sylvia Plath.
Andromeda has taught fiction in two MFA creative writing programs and works with novelists and memoirists as a book coach. She joins Paper Covers Rock as our inaugural Writer-in-Residence, spending a week on Salt Spring Island working on her current project.
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