ABOUT ANDREA

Andrea’s writing appears in Joyland, Redivider, Third Coast, Bitch, The Baltimore Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Electric Literature, Catapult, the anthology Body Language, and elsewhere. She was a 2024 New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellow in prose and attended the Tin House 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. After stints in upstate New York, Boston, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, and Jersey City, she currently lives in the D.C. Maryland suburbs with her husband and dog, a black lab/brittany mix who loves broccoli and pillows.