G.A. Lawrence was born in Mamaroneck, New York, into a world already half imagined. Her mother, a stage actor, raised her among scripts, costumes, and the quiet magic of performance. As a child, Lawrence was drawn to autumn—the smell of burning leaves—and the mystery of Halloween.

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When her family moved to California, her imagination found new forms. The films of Ray Harryhausen, the strange logic of Dr. Seuss, and the macabre elegance of Edward Gorey fueled a lifelong instinct to translate the inner world into image and story.

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In 1986, Lawrence began her professional career in animation at Hanna-Barbera, later art directing HBO’s Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child and serving as production designer on The Pagemaster. She went on to contribute to projects including Hercules, Mulan, Family Dog—working alongside Tim Burton—and Class of 3000, created with André Benjamin (André 3000).

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Alongside her work in film and television, Lawrence is also a writer. With her debut horror poetry collection in 2024, she unveiled the quiet spine of her artistic voice. Ghostly Trees merges image and verse into haunted landscapes where memory lingers and the natural world speaks in whispers. Her writing is intimate, eerie, and deeply visual—less about telling stories than revealing what waits beneath them.

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Lawrence’s ongoing series, Zomvoos, embodies her signature blend of darkness and tenderness—handcrafted stitched beings infused with voodoo folklore, humor, and soul. Each piece exists as both object and character, carrying the emotional residue of her poetic world.

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She followed her poetry debut with Echoes in the Walls, a dark, haunting anthology that gives voice to souls lost to sorrow, silence, and unspeakable ends. That same year, she collaborated with partner Valerio Ventura on the novel Pale Witch, a Halloween time-travel horror story.

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Now based in Joshua Tree, California, Lawrence continues to create from her desert studio, where her work moves fluidly between sculpture, illustration, and poetry.

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Her coffee-table art book, ZOMVOOS, is available in hardcover through Barnes & Noble and Amazon.