Andrea Witzke Slot is an award-winning poet, essayist and fiction writer. She is author of two poetry collections: To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press 2012), a poetry collection inspired by HD's Sea Garden poems and a top ten bestseller on two Amazon lists, and the forthcoming The Ministry of Flowers (Valley Press 2020), which takes its title from an Emily Dickinson poem and explores how flowers, real and metaphorical, can connect humans and provide their own kind of ministry--ministry needed more than ever as the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic and its eventual aftermath.
After teaching for many years (primary school in the UK, at Collin College in Texas, and at the University of Illinois at Chicago after earning her PhD), Andrea now lives in London where she works to capture the unexpected beauty of humanity and nature in words, paints, and photography. Her work can be found in Stand Magazine, Acumen, Ambit, Under the Radar, Translation Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, among many others.
Andrea is a contributing artist with Fiona Lesley's Poetry Exchange and is honoured to be among the poets who recently gifted poems to Hafsah Aneela Bashir's Poetry Health Service.
After teaching for many years (primary school in the UK, at Collin College in Texas, and at the University of Illinois at Chicago after earning her PhD), Andrea now lives in London where she works to capture the unexpected beauty of humanity and nature in words, paints, and photography. Her work can be found in Stand Magazine, Acumen, Ambit, Under the Radar, Translation Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, among many others.
Andrea is a contributing artist with Fiona Lesley's Poetry Exchange and is honoured to be among the poets who recently gifted poems to Hafsah Aneela Bashir's Poetry Health Service.
short stories
Where our Hands, Like Memories, Rest in the Night (Stand Magazine, May 2020)
Proximity (Fictive Dream)
The Family Friend (Litro)
After Reading the News Story of a Woman Who Tried to Carry her Dead Baby onto an Airplane (Able Muse)
Caterpillar (Fiction Southeast)
Talking Trojans (Fiction International)
Grainspiracy (Queen Mob's Teahouse)
The Wall (Litro)
Penelope thinks she remembers her father (Litro)
poems
The Daffodils & The Time-Being of Oak (Compass Magazine)
A Poem For Grenfell (Amaryllis)
Inscripted (Bellevue Literary Review)
Standing Near My Father's Work & Bookends (Acumen)
Ambit
Lunch Ticket Spotlight
Rappahannock Review
London Grip
Crab Orchard Review
Kettle Blue Review
The American Literary Review
The Adirondack Review
Lascaux Review (nominated for a Pushcart)
Nimrod International
Mid-American Review (finalist in MAR's Fineline Competition)
Kudzu House Quarterly
Tupelo Quarterly
Tupelo Quarterly (finalist in TQ's Open Prose Contest)
Tupelo Quarterly (runner-up in TQ's Open Prose Contest)
Under the Radar
Rappahannock Review
Verse Daily (nominated for a Pushcart)
Mezzo Cammin
The Inflectionist Review (nominated for a Pushcart)
Connotation Press
Perine's Fountain
Sample poems from To find a new beauty
