ABOUT ANDREA

Andrea’s writing appears in Joyland, Redivider, Gay Magazine, Bitch, The Baltimore Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Electric Literature, Catapult, the anthology Body Language, and elsewhere. She was a semi-finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and attended the Tin House Winter Novel Workshop. She has an MFA in fiction from West Virginia University.

Andrea has served as an in-school teaching artist for PEN/Faulkner's Writers in Schools program and as a contributing writer for the We Need Diverse Books blog.

Andrea was born in Korea and adopted as a baby. She was raised on Staten Island, New York (the forgotten borough). After stints in upstate New York, Boston, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn, she currently lives in Jersey City where she is completing a novel.