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.

Examples of art practice

• “I Will Teach You Magic” – a short story about magic as accessible technology, published in Cossmass Infinities
• “Even the Clearest Water” – a short/flash story about water fae, autistic humans, and love, published in Fireside Magazine