Tris Lawrence

Tris Lawrence has been writing since she was a child, fillingnotebooks with the worlds, dreams, and voices from inside her head. Shedeclared in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer, promptly starteddrafting her first novel in seventh grade, and never looked back.Trishas always been fascinated by the way people work: how theirrelationships fit together, how they interact socially, how they learnand discover. She has read avidly her entire life, devouring mysteries,romances, science fiction, and fantasy novels, and as an adult stillloves all of these genres. Her favorite stories center on people who arelearning or discovering new things, and coming-of-age stories top thatlist, which is how Pine Hills University came to be. She wants to sharestories of people who are learning how to relate to each other, how toadult, how to college, and how to just be. She hopes to share storiesabout diverse characters with representation of everything she wishesshe could have read growing up, and she hopes that these stories willtouch the lives and hearts of those who read them.When notwriting, Tris is a wife, a mother (to two children, two cats, and adog), a knitter, a system administrator, a black belt in taekwondo, anavid reader, and a music aficionado. Sleep, she claims, is optional.