Andrea Dooley lives in Oakland, CA, with her husband and pets. An excerpt from Of Paternal Bondage won the 2018 Christopher Hewitt Award for Creative Non-Fiction from Art and Understanding magazine. Of Paternal Bondage was a finalist for the Autumn House Non-Fiction Prize. Andrea has also written two novels, which she workshopped at the Northern California Writers Retreat and Eckerd College Writers in Paradise. Andrea’s screenplay When Opal Was A Baddie won the 2026 Chicago Women Film Fest for Best Feature Screenplay and has been a finalist in the Berlin and Cambridge Screenwriting Festivals. Andrea was a selected participant in the Stowe Narrative Lab for September 2025 for a TV pilot set in a union law firm, and was shortlisted for the 2025 John Updike Casitas Fellowship. She graduated from the University of Chicago, the Divinity School at the University of Chicago (AB 1996, AM 1996), and Chicago-Kent College of Law (JD 2000).
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