Lexi Pandell is a writer from Oakland, California. Her debut memoir HOLY MOTHER! will be published in fall 2027.
Her non-fiction work has been published by The Atlantic, The New York Times, WIRED, The New Republic, Vox, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Playboy, AARP, Creative Nonfiction, and many others. Her short fiction has been published by WIRED, The Pinch, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, New Ohio Review, The Normal School, Queen Mob’s Tea House, museum of americana, Peatsmoke Journal, Otherwheres, and the Berkeley Noir anthology from Akashic Books.
She is an alumna of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the facilitator of Desert Salon, an annual writing retreat in Joshua Tree, California. She was a 2020 Writing by Writers fellow and, in 2022, she won the Editors’ Prize in Fiction from New Ohio Review. In 2023, she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
To learn more about her, check out her Q&A with The Writing Cooperative.
(Headshot by Emily Merrill.)
Lexi Pandell 