Grace Andreacchi was born in New York in 1954, but has lived on the far side of the great ocean for many years - sometimes in Paris, sometimes Berlin, and nowadays in London, where she keeps a newt for special company. Her writing is postmodernist, unusual and, she likes to think, rather exciting. Also fluent in French and German.
'The Queen too must have her dwarf. To remind her of human frailty. She keeps it in a box under the bed, it is very quiet, most of the time it sleeps. When the Queen is lonely she sometimes opens the box, she sometimes takes it out and dresses it in tiny garments. Now you are a toreador, now you are a nun, now you are the Pope in Rome... Do you find this sort of thing amusing? Neither does the Queen, she is not smiling as she dresses and undresses her living doll, as she helps the tiny crooked limbs into and out of pink stockings.'
(Excerpt from 'Poetry and Fear')

Poetry and Fear (Andromache Books, 2008), Scarabocchio (Andromache Books, 2008), Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent's Tail Press, 1993), Give My Heart Ease (New American Writing Award) (Permanent Press, 1989)

Elysian Sonnets and Other Poems (Paris Press, 1990)

Calapooya Collage, Carolina Quarterly, Eclectica, From East to West, Horizon Review, Poetry Midwest, Rhythm Poetry Magazine, Scarecrow, Sein und Werden, Six Sentences, Thirteen Poetry Magazine