Dr. Andrea Witzke Slot is a London-based poet, fiction writer, & essayist.
Andrea Witzke Slot writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and particular enjoys creating work that plays with boundaries of genre and form. She’s won fiction 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.” 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, while her second poetry manuscript, which was a finalist in Black Lawrence Press's Hudson Prize and shortlisted for Eyewear Press's 2016 Beverly Prize, explores love, addiction, forgiveness, and ministry through a small poem of Emily Dickinson's. Poems from the collection will appear in The Compass in Spring 2019. She is also a Hawthornden Fellow and will spend a month at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland in 2019.
After teaching for many years (primary school in the UK and, most recently, at the University of Illinois at Chicago after earning her PhD), Andrea now writes full time and is involved in various poetry/community projects. Her first novel manuscript is a contemporary play on The Odyssey, with emphasis on ownership of the female body and the internal journey of a young woman who raises her son in secret, while her second looks a young carers journey back from memory loss. A third is en route, she is excited to say, which be the focus of her time at Hawthornden. 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 Amaryllis (which published her long poem written on the morning of the Grenfell Tower tragedy on its one-year anniversary, 14th June 2018), Ambit, Acumen, The American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Compass Magazine, Litro, Measure, Nimrod, The Adirondack Review, Mid-American Review, Under the Radar, among many others. Nonfiction can be found in in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Translation Review, while her academic work on poetry, dialogism and social change can be found in anthologies published with SUNY Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
After teaching for many years (primary school in the UK and, most recently, at the University of Illinois at Chicago after earning her PhD), Andrea now writes full time and is involved in various poetry/community projects. Her first novel manuscript is a contemporary play on The Odyssey, with emphasis on ownership of the female body and the internal journey of a young woman who raises her son in secret, while her second looks a young carers journey back from memory loss. A third is en route, she is excited to say, which be the focus of her time at Hawthornden. 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 Amaryllis (which published her long poem written on the morning of the Grenfell Tower tragedy on its one-year anniversary, 14th June 2018), Ambit, Acumen, The American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Compass Magazine, Litro, Measure, Nimrod, The Adirondack Review, Mid-American Review, Under the Radar, among many others. Nonfiction can be found in in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Translation Review, while her academic work on poetry, dialogism 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.
Poems
The American Literary Review
Acumen, 1
Crab Orchard Review
Acumen, 2
Bellevue Literary Review
Amaryllis
Rappahannock Review, 1
Rappahannock Review, 2
Kettle Blue Review
All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood
Perine's Fountain
Ambit
Kudzu House
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
Amaryllis
Rappahannock Review, 1
Rappahannock Review, 2
Kettle Blue Review
All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood
Perine's Fountain
Ambit
Kudzu House
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.
