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Andrea Lawlor鈥檚 novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, was included in a NYT piece on .


Was an invited panelist at a number of panels, including the University of California Irvine's Center for Storytelling's "Writing Sex: A Conversation about Writing鈥 panel, moderated by Jonathan Alexander; and the Brooklyn Book Festival's "Beyond the Year of Trans Creativity," moderated by Riley McLeod. Moderated conversations with writers Jung Yun (Odyssey Bookshop), Megan Milks (Books Are Magic), Joss Lake (Books Are Magic), and Callum Angus (Odyssey Bookshop), among others. Was invited to read with Andrea Abi-Karam, hosted by Books Are Magic (Brooklyn).


Moderated conversation with the writer Jordy Rosenberg (UMass) for Grub Street's Writing Conference: "How I Wrote This".


Was invited to read in December 31, 2020.


Was in conversation with writers Eileen Myles () and emily c. danforth () in October 2020.


Invited to read and present at a number of series and festivals, including the UA Prose series at the University of Arizona at Tucson鈥檚 Creative Writing Program, with writer T. Fleischmann; at the Texas Book Festival, on the "Pop Music & Queer Identity Panel" with Karen Tongsen and the "What Makes a Classic?鈥 panel with Elda Rotor (VP/Publisher of Penguin Classics); and at the Segue Reading Series in New York, with poet Cecilia Vicu帽a.


Lawrence, S. M. (2020). Collaborating, animating, improvising: Young children in mixed-gender dyads participating in digital pretend play with a story-making app. Journal of Early Childhood Education Research, 9(1), 52-75.


Jain, P. & Lay, M.J. (2021). Strategic Risk Sharing or Driven by Fairness? Evidence from a laboratory experiment in Kenya. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 191.


Lay, M.J. (2020) Pension Regulation, Firm Borrowing, and Investment Risk. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 87(4).


Lay, M.J. (2019). Pension Contributions, Pension Awareness, and Changing Personal Finances. Contemporary Economic Policy, 30(4).