Tricia Lawrence

Tricia Lawrence was born and raised in Oregon, “always a reader, precocious, but so sensitive,” she says. “So to me. I took them so seriously and I never wanted to leave those worlds.” Lawrence says she grew up in a world that never felt right. “I always wondered if someone would ever talk to me like I craved,” she says. “I got started as an editor freelancing in the ’90s and found my chosen career. Then I met people who also were like me, and we now talk fast and furious and we all get each other. The first time I walked into a publishing house in New York City, 15 years after I started freelancing, and saw the bookcases and manuscripts stacked all over offices, I knew I had come home, even though I live on the West Coast.”