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.