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Andrea's creative work has won or placed in over a dozen competitions, some links included below:  ​
 • Shortlisted, Bridport Prize, 2022 
• Longlisted, National Poetry Competition, 2022, "Showering my mother on her 60th Wedding Anniversary," Poetry Wales online Interview Series 
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Finalist, ILA Reynolds Price Award in Fiction for the short story "Proximity," later published in Fictive Dream 
Winner, Able Muse's Prize in Fiction for the short story "After Reading the News Story of a Woman Who Attempted to Carry Her Dead Baby onto an Airplane," selected by Eugenia Kim
• Winner, Fiction International's Short Short Story Contest for the flash fiction piece 'Talking Trojans," selected by Harold Jaffe
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Finalist, Southeast Review's Gearhart Poetry Prize for the long poem "Ring Out, Wild Bells, the Voices of our Nation's Streets" selected by Barbara Hamby
• Finalist, Tupelo Quarterly's Open Prose Contest for the prose poem "Ode to the Stairs," selected by E.J. Levy
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 Runner-up, Tupelo Quarterly's Open Prose Contest for "The Unreliable Patient," selected by Matt Bell
• Semi-finalist, Tupelo Quarterly Open Poetry Contest for the poem "Qumran"
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Finalist, The University of Louisville's Calvino Prize for the short story "Where Our Hands Rest in the Night," selected by Robert Coover, later published in Stand Magazine 
• Pushcart Prize Nomination for the poem "Terra Incognita," from To Find a New Beauty nominated by Gold Wake Press, also on Poetry Daily 
• Runner-up, Meridian's Flash Fiction Contest for the flash fiction piece "Lymphatic"
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Honorable Mention, Able Muse Write Prize for the short story "Penelope thinks she remembers her father"  selected by Amit Majmudar, later published in Litro US 
(an excerpt from a novel ms. which was one of two finalists in AROHO's Clarissa Dalloway Prize),
• Finalist, Arts & Letters Unclassifiables Contest for the short story "The Wall," published with Litro UK  
• Pushcart Prize Nomination for the poem "At a Truck Stop on Highway 124," The Lascaux Review
• Pushcart Prize Nomination and an Independent Best American Poetry Anthology nomination for the poem "Time Zones and the Art of Healing," The Inflectionist Review
• Finalist, Mid-American Review's Fineline Contest for for the flash fiction piece "Panoply"
• Shortlisted for Eyewear Press's Beverly Prize and Finalist in Black Lawrence Press's Hudson Prize Black Lawrence's for an earlier manuscript of what became The Ministry of Flowers (then called Between My Country and the Others [in search of a kinder world)
• Finalist, A Room of Her Own (AROHO)'s Clarissa Dalloway Book Prize for a novel manuscript, selected by Kate Gale

• Pushcart Prize Nomination for the poem "Terra Incognita," nominated by Gold Wake Press, 2013
• Excellence in the Creative/Performing Arts Award for poems published in Illyria, Fjala, and PENA International (in both English and Albanian translations), University of Texas at Dallas, 2005
• Second Place, Sean Christopher Britton Memorial Award in Poetry, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, for a series of poems nominated by Dr. Robert Nelsen, head of Creative Writing, UTD, 2002
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VITA
note: publications prior to 2011 are in the name Andrea Witzke Leavey

education.
•    PhD, Focus on Contemporary Women's Poetry and multiple ideologies and voices in lyric poetry. University of Texas at Dallas, May 2008. Dissertation: “Reclaiming the Dialogic, Reframing the Topics: Culture, Violence, and Eros in Contemporary American Women’s Lyric Poetry.” Director: Robert S. Nelsen. Qualifying exams in African American literature, American women’s literature, and 20th century international poetry
•    M.A., Studies in Literature, Focus on Poetry. University of Texas at Dallas, May 2002. Thesis: “The Poetry of Ambivalence: Searching for Questions in the Work of Marianne Moore, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said), and Paula Gunn Allen.” Poetry manuscript: Sea Gardens. Director: Rainer Schulte
•    Post Graduate Certificate of Education, 1992, University of Hertfordshire, U.K. Qualified to teach primary school (ages 3-11)  in England and Wales
•    B.A. in English Literature, Minor in Business Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1988 
•    International Exchange Program of Study, English Literature, University of Swansea, Wales, 1987-88


publications
books.
•    The Ministry of Flowers, poetry collection, Scarborough: Valley press, Forthcoming, 2020
•   ​To find a new beauty, poetry collection, Boston: Gold Wake Press, 2012 


scholarly contributions to books.
•   Counterclaims, (Ed. Harvey Hix), Dalkey Archives, 2020. Scholarly contribution from my academic work on Harryette Mullen. 
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Dialogism and Poetry: Hearing Over (ed. Chad Engbers and Mara Scanlon), Palgrave Macmillon, 2014. Scholarly essay: "Dialogic Poetry as Emancipatory Technology: Ventriloquy and Voiceovers in the Social Junctures of Harryette Mullen’s Muse &  Drudge" 
•   Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the work of Julia Alvarez (ed. Rebecca Harrison and Emily Hipchen), NY: SUNY Press, 2013. Scholarly essay: “‘Between the Scylla and the Charybdis’: Navigating the Dialogic Waters of Julia Alvarez’s ‘The Other Side/El Otro Lado.’
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journal publications
• Poetry Wales "Spring Arrives at the Hospital Gates" (poem) forthcoming 2023
• Poetry Wales, "Showering my Mother on her 60th Wedding Anniversary" Online Interview about the poem longlisted for the National Poetry Competition), 2022
• The Rialto (98) "Homebound," 2022
• Poetry Health Service (created by Hafsah Aneela Bashir), "To Finding" (poem), 2020
• ​Stand Magazine, 'Where our hands, like memories, rest in the night" (short story), 2020
• Litro (UK) Friday Shorts, 'The Family Friend' (short story) 2020
• Fictive Dream, 'Proximity" (short story), 2020
• London Grip, "Monuments of Home," (poem),  2019
• Compass Magazine, "The Daffodils" and "The Time-Being of Oak" (poems), 2019
• Queen Mob's Teahouse, "Grainspiracy [a rockumentary]", 2019, a mock piece with a serious message about sentient life
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Amaryllis, "What I Saw on the Heath Today, June Fourteenth, Two Thousand Seventeen" (Lines composed the morning of the Grenfell Tower fire, 11 days after the London Bridge attack, 23 days after the Manchester Arena bombing), 2018
• Acumen, "Standing near my father's work" (poem), 2018
• Under the Radar, "Open" (poem), 2018
• Kettle Blue Review: "Minister of Milk" (prose poem) 2017

• Perine's Fountain: "Imagining the Artist’s Place in the World: The Philosophical Meditations in the poems of Shanta Acharya’s Imagine: New and Selected Poems (Book Review), 2017
• Acumen, "Bookends" (poem),  2017
• Kudzu House Quarterly - "The Slug" (poem) 2016
• Perinne's Fountain - "Between my country and the others--a sea" and "That which once was" (poems) "That which once was" and "Between my country and the others--a sea" (poems), 2016
• Sage Hill Press (online), from All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood, "That which once was" (poem), 2016
• Ambit - Between my country and the others, as ministry" (poem). 2016
• Litro Online (#SundayStories)  - "The Wall" (hybrid fiction) 
• The Rappahannock Review, "The Palm of Proprioception" (prose poem) and "Last Day to Save on Sarah Jaeger’s 'Throwing and Alternative Video'" (poem), Sept 2016
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The American Literary Review, "Homeostasis," (poem), spring 2016
• Under the Radar, "Sacrum," (poem), spring 2016

• Fiction Southeast, "Caterpillar" (fiction), Feb 2016
• Meridian, "Lymphatic" Runner-up in Meridian's 2015 Flash Fiction Contest, (flash fiction) 2016

• Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry - "My Last Mechanic" (a poem parody of you-know-what) 2015• Able Muse Review - "After Reading the News Story of a Woman Who Attempted to Carry Her Dead Baby onto an Airplane," Winner of the  2015 Able Muse Prize, (fiction) 2015
• Lunch Ticket's Amuse-Bouche "I want to die the way my dog sleeps," "In Gratitude of the Strange Phenomenon of Reynaud's," "It doesn't spell disaster" (poems), Spring/Summer Issue, 2015
• Lascaux Review, "At a Truck Stop on Highway 124" (poem), 2015
• Crab Orchard Review, "The Incubator" (poem), Vol 20, No 1, Winter/Spring 2015
• Poetry East, "Llama: lama glama" (poem), No 84 & 85, Summer 2015
• Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, "Geometric" (poem),Vol 58, No 2, Spring/ Summer 2015
• The Adirondack Review, "The Psychologists' Room" (flash fiction/prose poem), 2015 
• The Inflectionist Review, "Time Zones and the Art of Healing" and "Disguises" (poems) 2015
• Fiction International, "Talking Trojans" (fiction), winner of FI's 2015 Short Short Fiction Contest, 2015
• Litro Magazine (NY), "Penelope thinks she remembers her father" (fiction), 2015
• Southeast Review, "Ring Out, Wild Bells, Voices of our Nation's Streets" (long poem), finalist, Gearhart Poetry Prize, 2015
• Mezzo Cammin, "Book Burning" and "Spindles, Time, Cancer" (poems), Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2014
• Mid-American Review, "Panoply" (flash fiction/prose poem), a finalist, MAR's Fineline Competition, 2014
• Segue, "Regret" (poem), Vol 12, 2014
• Bellevue Literary Review, "Inscriptions" (poem). Vol. 14, No. 2, 2014
• Spoon River Poetry Review, "Blood Ties" (poem), Vol. 39.1, 2014
• Tupelo Quarterly, "Ode to the Stairs," (flash fiction/prose poem), finalist, TQ's Open Prose Contest, 2014
• Tupelo Quarterly, "The Unreliable Patient," (flash fiction/prose poem), runner-up, TQ's Open Prose Contest, 2014
• Jet Fuel Review, "Root Position" and "Lexiphilia" (poems), 2013    
• Tupelo Quarterly, "Qumran" (poem), 2013    
• Ginosko Literary Journal: “Appellations,” “Self-Portrait, Desk,” “Self-Portrait, Tree,” “Self-Portrait, Oceans,” “Eye Witnesses," 2012
• Verse Daily: “Terra Incognita” (poem), 2012
• THIS Literary Magazine: “This Silent Night” and “May Irwin’s Entertainments” (poems), Issue 14, 2012 
• Written River:  A Journal of Eco-Poetics (Hiraeth Press), “The Ataxic Queen of the Lasius Niger,” “Terra Incognita,” “Rara Avis” (poems), Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2011
• Chiron Review: “The Nymph on the Urn” (poem), Issue 96: 1046-8898,  2011
• Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry: “Seeds” and “Spring Gentian” (poems), Issue #22, 2011

• Connotation Press: John Hoppethaller's Congeries: “The Cartography of Flesh” and “L’eta D’oro: The Golden Age” (poems), 2011
• Sea Stories (ed. Casey Schulke and K.R. Copeland): “The Night Light: A Lullaby,” “Lyonesse,” “Hawks Nest, St. John, USVI” (poems), 2011
• The Houston Literary Review: “The Hotel Bed” (poem), ]2011
• Southern Women’s Review: “Ode to a Bear: Part II” (poem) Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2010
• Nacional (Poems in Translation): “Shadows” (Hijet), “Mmii” (MMII), “The forgotten City” (Qyteti i harruar), “Ode to a bear: Part I” (Ode për një ari), “Penance” (Pendesë), “A dog, like fiction” (Një qen, si letërsia artistike), “A cat, like poetry” (Një mace, si poezia), “Hawks nest, St. Johns, USVI” (Hauks nest, St. john, USVI) and “The new bed” (Krevati i ri), Vol 1. No. 5, 2009
• PENA International, same series of poems as above, N.R. 2, 2005
• A&R Traductores (in translation): “the mechanics” (poem), Editor and translator Tomás Ayala-Torres, 2006
• Illyria: Reprint of poems in PENA International, Vol. 14, No. 1344, 2004
• Fjala (The Word): same series of poems in PENA International, ]2004
• The Pacific Review: “The new bed,” (poem), Vol. 22, 2004
• Valdosta Voice, “Ordinary Sunday IV” (short story), 2003
• Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: “A dog, like fiction” and “A cat, like poetry” (poems), No. 19, Fall/Winter 2002
• Bogg: Delaware Poetry Review: “The pub on saturday night” (poem), No. 71, 2001


anthologies.
• Red Sky /poetry on the global epidemic of violence against women (Sable Books, 2016) - "Dear Police Officer" (prose poem)   
• All We Can Hold: A Collection of Poetry on Motherhood (Sage Hill Press, 2016), "To my daughter who came into my bedroom last night” and “What recovery looks like"
•  The Femmes Folles Anthology: Bared (mico-feminist Press, 2016), ed. Laura Madeline Wiseman, "Just Another Breast Poem"
•  The Inflectionist Review Print Anthology. ed. John Sibley Williams and A. Molotkov, reprint of poems "Time Zones and the Art of Healing" and "Disguises"

• The Ginosko Print Anthology #3, (Mad Press, 2016) (ed. Robert Cesaretti), reprint of poem "Appellations," publisher: Mad Press•  Contemporary American Poetry / Poezia bashkëkohore amerikane (ed. and trans. by Gjeke Marinaj). Tirana: The International Centre of Culture / Qendra ndërkombëtare e cultures, 2006. Poems (in translation) selected for inclusion: “Shadows” (Hijet), “Mmii” (MMII), “The forgotten City” (Qyteti i harruar), “Ode to a bear: Part I” (Ode për një ari), “Penance” (Pendesë), “A dog, like fiction” (Një qen, si letërsia artistike), “A cat, like poetry” (Një mace, si poezia), “Hawks nest, St. Johns, USVI” (Hauks nest, St. john, USVI) & “The  New bed” (Krevati iri) essays.
•    Perine's Fountain: "Imagining the Artist’s Place in the World: The Philosophical Meditations in the poems of Shanta Acharya’s Imagine: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, India, 2017)
•    The Chronicle of Higher Education: "The View from both Sides of the Track (and how the Tenure Track can better help the Non-tenure Track Cause," June 2014 
•   The Chronicle of Higher Education: "It's About More than Money: the contingent labor force need careers, not just jobs," February 2014
•    Fifth Wednesday Journal: “Whom do you trust?” Spring 2013
•    Fifth Wednesday Journal: “Why we need book reviews,” Fall 2012 
•    Translation Review: “The Pages of Day and Night by Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said),” No. 61, 2001. Published under Andrea Witzke Leavey; available from from Talyor & Francis/Routledge online.


editorships.
Associate Poetry Editor, RHINO Poetry, 2011-2015
Book Review Editor, Fifth Wednesday Journal, 2012-2015
Editor, Afghan Women’s Writing Project, National Poetry Month Project, 2012
Editor-in-Chief, Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts, 2003-2005
Poetry Editor, Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts, 2002
Associate Editor, Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts, 2001


teaching.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Full-time Lecturer, Department of English, 2009-2015

Collin College, Full-time Core Professor, Department of English, 2005-2008     
University of Texas at Dallas, Teaching Fellow, 2000-2005
Primary School Classroom Teacher, London Borough of Barnet, UK, 1992-1999


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