Andrea Witzke Slot is a London-based poet, fiction writer, & essayist.
Andrea Witzke Slot creates work that often blurs the lines between poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, our waking and sleeping lives, and our natural and manmade worlds. She is author of To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press 2012), a poetry collection inspired by H.D. in title and form, while her second book of poetry explores love, addiction, forgiveness, and ministry through a poem of Emily Dickinson's (a finalist in Black Lawrence Press's Hudson Prize and 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.”
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 appear in Cold Creek Review in June, while a playful but philosophical piece "Grainspiracy" will soon be published at the inimical Queen Mob's Teahouse. Nonfiction can be found in in The Chronicle of Higher Education and in academic anthologies published with SUNY Press and Palgrave Macmillan. 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 appear in Cold Creek Review in June, while a playful but philosophical piece "Grainspiracy" will soon be published at the inimical Queen Mob's Teahouse. Nonfiction can be found in in The Chronicle of Higher Education and in academic anthologies published with SUNY Press and Palgrave Macmillan. An American expat and permanent resident of the UK, Andrea lives in London but visits Chicago regularly.
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.
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
Poems
Amaryllis
Crab Orchard Review
Bellevue Literary Review
The American Literary Review
All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood
Rappahannock Review, 1
Rappahannock Review, 2
Perine's Fountain
Ambit
Acumen
Kudzu House
Ambit Magazine
Perine's Fountain
Lunch Ticket
Kettle Blue Review
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)
nonfiction
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.
