Andrea L. Fry

Poet

Author's Bio

Andrea Fry was born in Dallas, raised mainly in New York City and the Catskill Mountains, and educated at Union College and Columbia University. She published her first collection of poems, The Bottle Diggers, in May 2017 (Turning Point Press). Her poems have appeared or will appear in journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, Ars Medica (University of Toronto Press), Barrow Street, Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, The Comstock Review, Graham House Review, J Journal, Plainsongs, Reed Magazine, Stanford Literary Review, St. Petersburg Review, Writers Resist and the chapbook Still Against War, Poems for Marie Ponsot. Andrea is also a nurse practitioner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two formerly feral felines.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
The Bottle Diggers (WordTech Communications, 2017)
Prizes won: 

Andrea was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poem “Murder” which was published by J Journal.  She was a finalist in Georgia College’s Arts & Letters Prize 2010 contest, a semi-finalist in the 2010 Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and a semi-finalist in River Styx 2010 International Poetry Contest. 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Wallace Stevens Tony Hoagland Denise Levertov Seamus Heaney Rainer Maria Rilke Jack Gilbert Edna St. Vincent Millay Tomas Transtromer Joseph Conrad Thomas Wolfe William Stafford William Faulkner Fyodor Dostoevsky George Eliot
What I'm reading now: 
A Long, Long Way by Sebastian Barry

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Dallas, TX
Texas
Raised in: 
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Last update: Jul 06, 2020