About

Writer. Storyteller. Activist.

“Stretching from Oklahoma to New York, San Francisco to St. Louis, Chris Andoe’s stories capture the heart, humor and ironies of gay life. England had Dickens; San Francisco had Maupin; we have Andoe!”

Patrick Dilley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Southern Illinois University

Chris Andoe is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoirs House of Villadiva and Delusions of Grandeur. His story “Midnight Annie’s Final Performance” was included in Belt Publishing’s The St. Louis Anthology.

Andoe writes for St. Louis Magazine.