Andi C. Buchanan is a writer of mostly speculative fiction, living in Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai / Lower Hutt. Their work engages with community dynamics and found families, the enabling or disabling effects of fictional environments, and the monstrous.

Winner of Sir Julius Vogel Awards for From a Shadow Grave (Paper Road Press, 2019) and their short story “Girls Who Do Not Drown” (Apex, 2018), their fiction is also published in Fireside, Mermaids Monthly, Cossmass Infinities, and more. Their novel Sanctuary (Robot Dinosaur Press, 2022) tells the story of a queer, neurodivergent found-family who live in a haunted house.

Andi is the recipient of Toi Pōneke’s 2026 d/Deaf and/or Disabled Artist Development Residency. They have an MA in English from Victoria University of Wellington. In 2024 they curated and performed in the LitCrawl event "I'm disabled... so of course I'm a villain!". Their non-fiction has been published in Pantograph Punch and the Otherhood anthology from Massey University Press. They also write contemporary fantasy / sapphic romance as Andi R. Christopher.

what looks like a stack of polaroid photos which show Andi at a group performance, their table at a book fair, a trophy, and more. The top one shows Andi - a white non-binary person with turquoise hair - holding a plush dinosaur

"I pulled myself out of the pool below, crashing water refracting rainbows into the winter air. The water was bone cold and the ground cracked with ice, but neither would stop her."

- "Even the Clearest Water" (Fireside, 2020)

Sanctuary cover includes a large bottle with smoke inside and glowing images of an old house, a cat, a laptop, and food

invisible city shows a yellowish old fashioned city or castle

We will find snatches of time together, on sunless mornings before you make your way down the outside staircase to the school that does not want you, and in the evenings as I brush out and braid your hair... I will teach you magic in the roof gardens at night and hurriedly in the doorways of shops closed on a rest day.

- "I will teach you magic" (Cossmass Infinities, 2021)

Earlier works

This Other World cover shows a green imaginary planet
invisible city shows a yellowish old fashioned city or castle
Bree's Dinosaur cover is orange with a line drawing of a turtle at the bottom