*The official website of popular author Andrew Demčák

What AI says about me: Andrew Demčák is an American poet, novelist, playwright, and librarian whose work spans poetry, young adult fiction, drama, and literary fiction. He is especially known for writing emotionally rich fiction that center LGBTQ+ characters while exploring themes of grief, identity, family, memory, transformation, and belonging. His poetry often blends lyricism with unexpected imagery, folklore, and speculative elements, while his novels range from realistic coming-of-age stories to fantasy and science fiction. Across both forms, recurring concerns include loss, resilience, queer identity, and the strange beauty found in ordinary lives.

If you want to explore my work, good starting points are:

Ghost Songs for literary YA.

Cryptopedia for inventive contemporary poetry.

A Little Bit Langston if you enjoy queer YA speculative fiction.