Andrea Long Chu is a Pulitzer Prize–winning essayist and critic at New York magazine. Her book Females, an extended annotation of a lost play by Valerie Solanas, was published by Verso in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her writing has also appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Bookforum, Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, 4Columns, and Jewish Currents.

She was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for her work at New York. Her debut essay “On Liking Women,” published by n+1 in 2018, has become essential reading in gender studies classes across the country. Her essay in support of the graduate student who accused NYU professor Avital Ronell of sexual harassment was reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019. Her essay “China Brain” was selected for Best American Essays 2022.

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

Her middle name is really Long.