Andrea Witzke Slot is a London-based poet, fiction writer, & essayist.
Andrea Witzke Slot write poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and particular enjoys creating work that crosses boundaries of genre and form. Her first poetry collection To find a new beauty was published by Gold Wake Press in 2012 and is inspired by H.D.'s sea garden poems in both title and form. Her second poetry manuscript, which explores love, addiction, forgiveness, and ministry through a small poem of Emily Dickinson's, was a finalist in Black Lawrence Press's Hudson Prize and was shortlisted for Eyewear Press's 2016 Beverly Prize. She’s won prizes with Fiction International and Able Muse, and has been a finalist in over a dozen competitions, including A room of Her Own's Clarissa Dalloway Prize for her first novel manuscript, with her winning pieces described by Eugenia Kim as having “a rare and satisfying command of storytelling” and by Harold Jaffe as “meld[ing] compression, humor, keen intelligence, and social awareness.” An American expat and permanent resident of the UK, Andrea lives in London but visits Chicago regularly.
Work can be found (or is forthcoming) in such UK and US journals as Ambit, Acumen, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Litro, Measure, Meridian, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Southeast Review, Under the Radar, and Amaryllis, which published her long poem written on the morning of the Grenfell Tower tragedy on its one-year anniversary, 14th June 2018. Her story "He is the Reason," about a man who has not spoken to another human being for six years, will soon appear in Cold Creek Review, while a satirical but serious philosophical piece "Grainspiracy" (which questions the nature of sentient beings and our current food industry) was recently published with Queen Mob's Teahouse. Nonfiction can be found in in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Translation Review, while her academic work on dialogic poetry and social change can be found in anthologies published with SUNY Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
Work can be found (or is forthcoming) in such UK and US journals as Ambit, Acumen, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Litro, Measure, Meridian, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Southeast Review, Under the Radar, and Amaryllis, which published her long poem written on the morning of the Grenfell Tower tragedy on its one-year anniversary, 14th June 2018. Her story "He is the Reason," about a man who has not spoken to another human being for six years, will soon appear in Cold Creek Review, while a satirical but serious philosophical piece "Grainspiracy" (which questions the nature of sentient beings and our current food industry) was recently published with Queen Mob's Teahouse. Nonfiction can be found in in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Translation Review, while her academic work on dialogic poetry and social change can be found in anthologies published with SUNY Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
Andrea is a contributing artist with
Fiona Lesley's award-winning Poetry Exchange and is represented
by Stephanie Sinclair at the Toronto-based Transatlantic Literary Agency
Fiona Lesley's award-winning Poetry Exchange and is represented
by Stephanie Sinclair at the Toronto-based Transatlantic Literary Agency
Poems
The American Literary Review
Acumen, 1
Crab Orchard Review
Acumen, 2
Bellevue Literary Review
Kettle Blue Review
Amaryllis
All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood
Rappahannock Review, 1
Rappahannock Review, 2
Perine's Fountain
Ambit
Kudzu House
Ambit Magazine
Perine's Fountain
Lunch Ticket
Mezzo Cammin
Lascaux Review (nominated for a Pushcart)
Tupelo Quarterly, 3
Nimrod
Verse Daily (nominated for a Pushcart)
Segue Online Literary Review (listen here)
The Inflectionist Review (nominated for a Pushcart)
Fiction/Flash Fiction
Litro (UK)
Litro (NY)
Able Muse (video here)
Fiction Southeast (audio here)
Fiction International
The Adirondack Review
Mid-American Review
Tupelo Quarterly, 1
Tupelo Quarterly, 2
Meridian
Connotation Press
nonfiction/academic work
Dialogic Poetry and the work of Harryette Mullen
from Poetry and Dialogism: Hearing Over, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. (Editors' intro here.)
Dialogic Poetry and the work of Julia Alvarez
from Inhabiting "'La Patria': Identity, Agency, and Antojo" in the Work of Julia Alvarez, SUNY Press 2013. (Editors' intro here.)
H.L. Hix's Progressive Poetics Project
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2
interviews
Mid-American Review
Rappahannock Review
Poetry Exchange Podcasts
Listen to a range of these amazing podcasts here.
The American Literary Review
Acumen, 1
Crab Orchard Review
Acumen, 2
Bellevue Literary Review
Kettle Blue Review
Amaryllis
All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood
Rappahannock Review, 1
Rappahannock Review, 2
Perine's Fountain
Ambit
Kudzu House
Ambit Magazine
Perine's Fountain
Lunch Ticket
Mezzo Cammin
Lascaux Review (nominated for a Pushcart)
Tupelo Quarterly, 3
Nimrod
Verse Daily (nominated for a Pushcart)
Segue Online Literary Review (listen here)
The Inflectionist Review (nominated for a Pushcart)
Fiction/Flash Fiction
Litro (UK)
Litro (NY)
Able Muse (video here)
Fiction Southeast (audio here)
Fiction International
The Adirondack Review
Mid-American Review
Tupelo Quarterly, 1
Tupelo Quarterly, 2
Meridian
Connotation Press
nonfiction/academic work
Dialogic Poetry and the work of Harryette Mullen
from Poetry and Dialogism: Hearing Over, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. (Editors' intro here.)
Dialogic Poetry and the work of Julia Alvarez
from Inhabiting "'La Patria': Identity, Agency, and Antojo" in the Work of Julia Alvarez, SUNY Press 2013. (Editors' intro here.)
H.L. Hix's Progressive Poetics Project
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2
interviews
Mid-American Review
Rappahannock Review
Poetry Exchange Podcasts
Listen to a range of these amazing podcasts here.
