About

I’m Christa Lawler, and I spend about 16 hours a day writing stuff: Stories for our mid-sized daily newspaper, book reviews for my best-friend-I’ve-never-met’s website, very occasional pop culture musings for a Chicago-based comedy troupe. I also have a personal blog and use Twitter, but lets keep them out of this.

I’m still in the process of filling this site with content, but eventually it will serve as a sort of RSS feed for all of the different writing I do:

Personal essays.
Book reviews.
Daily stories for the Duluth News Tribune.
Pop culture bits.

When I’m not writing, I’m reading, finding 101 ways to incorporate lentils into meals, watching the CW, drawing pictures and beating myself up about how infrequently I run. Fun fact: In 2004 I came in 6th to last place in Twin Cities Marathon. Beat that.

I live in Duluth, Minn., the most underrated city in the world. It’s full of all sorts of freaks, hippies, and weirdos and I love it here. From a distance, it looks like a hamlet. It is on Lake Superior, the largest freshwater urinal in the world.

I live with my boyfriend Barrett, who is really good at a lot of things like writing, taking photographs, being hilarious on Twitter and drawing. He is also better than me at cooking. We start a lot of projects together including covering hit songs by Kanye West with the smooth stylings of our glo-fi band and a web comic that is in its infancy.

We used to have a 35 pound cat named Toonses, who was really more like a roommate, but he died and it was so horrible that we’ll never have pets ever again ever. Or at least until I can look at Animal Allies website without crying.