Andrea Laurion is a writer, editor, and audio producer
Drawn to the goodness and weirdness in human beings, she wants to shine a lens on the intersection of melancholy and joy. Her strengths as a storyteller and interviewer lie in her ability to connect with people through genuine curiosity and a desire to tell the stories that are seldom heard.
Andrea has produced audio and longform journalism pieces investigating overlooked moments in pop culture and other hidden histories— Keith Haring’s early artist years in Pittsburgh before he moved to New York, the origins of The Umbrella Cover Museum in Maine, how the home for ‘80s punk & new wave in Pittsburgh became a family-friendly Italian restaurant by the year 2000. If there’s a long, weird, complicated backstory, she’s in.
Her essays and humor writing on culture, class, and identity can be found in such places as Slate, The Washington Post, Shondaland, Hobart, The Rumpus, The Billfold, The Toast, The Hairpin, and Pittsburgh City Paper, among others. Andrea also does freelance editing, copywriting, and content creation for higher ed institutions, non-profits, and small businesses.
Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children’s birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over. A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies for radio & podcasting, Andrea grew up in the Appalachian hills between Pittsburgh and Morgantown, West Virginia, and it often inspires her work. She likes libraries, karaoke, gin & tonics, dogs, drinking coffee on her porch, and seeing where the night takes her.