​Andrea's book-length fiction & creative nonfiction is represented by Stephanie Sinclair at Transatlantic Literary Agency. 

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writer.
Influenced by trees and a lifetime of vivid synesthetic dreams, Andrea's writing is a place where genres, cultures, and ideas to mix, where there is often a blurred line between poetry & prose. She believes literature is a mirror for the capricious nature of memory & writes fiction that is (like our memories) a little off-beat, dream-like, & often draws from myth. Her poetry ranges from formal to experimental & she is constantly on the lookout for fresh approaches to capturing the beauty & terror of the human & natural worlds we inhabit.  She strives to create (& loves to read) literature that makes the world a kinder, more thoughtful place, where ethics matter, where unfamiliar points of views are explored, & where voices rises above the clutter & noise of the material world so that we might find what truly matters in this brief life. 

editor.
Andrea worked as a poetry editor at the award-winning journal Rhino Poetry and the book review editor at Fifth Wednesday Journal during hers years in Chicago. In grad school at the U of Texas at Dallas, she served as the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Sojourn (now called Reunion). 

lit crit.
Andrea's academic work focuses on multi-voiced (multi-ideological) poetry and the lyric "I" as a means of understanding self and others. Her theories are founded on a belief that poetry sharpens the art of engaged listening & can be a means for social change. Chapters from her academic book-in-progress can be found in books published by SUNY Press & Palgrave Macmillan, which include her essays on Harryette Mullen and Julia Alvarez. Other chapters focus on such writers as Jorie Graham, Claudia Rankine, Louise Erdrich, and Adrienne Rich. 

teacher. 
Andrea received a PGCE and taught primary school for most of the 1990s in the UK. After returning to the US in 1999, she received her MA and PhD and taught on the core faculty at Collin College in Texas and then for several years at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also teaches poetry and fiction workshops.