andrea witzke slot / andrea witzke leavey
about the author
Andrea Witzke Slot's first poetry collection, To find a new beauty, was released by Gold Wake Press in 2012.
To find a new beauty borrows its title from a line of H.D.'s and has been described by Marge Piercy as a collection "rich with cool, intelligent and carefully crafted poems that often have a subtext of terror and darkness." Her work has also appeared in such journals as Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Written River: A Journal of Eco-Poetics, The Pacific Review, Southern Women’s Review, THIS Literary Magazine, Chiron Review, Connotation Press, Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, and PENA International, among other online and print journals. In 2006, a series of her poems appeared in translation in the anthology Contemporary American Poetry/Poezia bashkekohore amerikane (published by the Albanian International Centre of Culture) alongside ten representative U.S. poets, including Alicia Ostricker, Ted Kooser, Gary Snyder, and Arthur Sze. She teaches at the University of Illinois - Chicago and is and associate editor at RHINO Poetry and the book review editor at Fifth Wednesday Journal. She is still known as Andrea Witzke Leavey in her teaching life.
Feel free to contact her at: andrea.witzke.slot@gmail.com
So what's in the works?
She is currently working on the final pages of a novel titled The Silencing of Ella Mendelssohn, a second poetry collection titled Between My Country and the Others, as well as an academic manuscript that explores multi-voiced poetry as a source of social justice and democratic understanding, titled The Subject in Dialogue: Remapping Subjectivity and Social Thought through Dialogic Poetry, a chapter of which is forthcoming from SUNY Press in the book Inhabiting “La Patria”: Identity, Agency, and “Antojo” in the work of Julia Alvarez.
Andrea Witzke Slot's first poetry collection, To find a new beauty, was released by Gold Wake Press in 2012.
To find a new beauty borrows its title from a line of H.D.'s and has been described by Marge Piercy as a collection "rich with cool, intelligent and carefully crafted poems that often have a subtext of terror and darkness." Her work has also appeared in such journals as Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Written River: A Journal of Eco-Poetics, The Pacific Review, Southern Women’s Review, THIS Literary Magazine, Chiron Review, Connotation Press, Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, and PENA International, among other online and print journals. In 2006, a series of her poems appeared in translation in the anthology Contemporary American Poetry/Poezia bashkekohore amerikane (published by the Albanian International Centre of Culture) alongside ten representative U.S. poets, including Alicia Ostricker, Ted Kooser, Gary Snyder, and Arthur Sze. She teaches at the University of Illinois - Chicago and is and associate editor at RHINO Poetry and the book review editor at Fifth Wednesday Journal. She is still known as Andrea Witzke Leavey in her teaching life.
Feel free to contact her at: andrea.witzke.slot@gmail.com
So what's in the works?
She is currently working on the final pages of a novel titled The Silencing of Ella Mendelssohn, a second poetry collection titled Between My Country and the Others, as well as an academic manuscript that explores multi-voiced poetry as a source of social justice and democratic understanding, titled The Subject in Dialogue: Remapping Subjectivity and Social Thought through Dialogic Poetry, a chapter of which is forthcoming from SUNY Press in the book Inhabiting “La Patria”: Identity, Agency, and “Antojo” in the work of Julia Alvarez.
