Andrea L. Fry

Poet

Author's Bio

Andrea Fry is the author of three poetry collections: Pawn Shop of Coincidence (Grolier Poetry Press) in October 2026, Poisons & Antidotes (DeerbrookmEditions) in 2021 and The Bottle Diggers (Turning Point Press) in 2017. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and The Sun among others. Andrea is a member of the New England Poetry Club and serves on the Grolier Poetry Bookshop board in Cambridge, MA.

Andrea first spent twenty years in technology marketing and then went to Columbia University to change careers into nursing. She worked as a cancer nurse practitioner for seventeen years, most recently at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City.

Andrea now lives in Boston, MA with her husband and two cool cats.

 

Publications & Prizes

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

Andrea's poem "Retribution" was nominated by J Journal for "Best of the Net." She was a Semi-Finalist for the Word Works Washington Prize for her collection "Pawn Shop of Coincidence."Andrea was nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. 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. 

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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: 
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

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: Oct 27, 2026