Andrea Hollander (born April 28, 1947 in Berlin, Germany) is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Blue Mistaken for Sky (Autumn House Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in New Ohio Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, FIELD, Five Points, Shenandoah, and Creative Nonfiction. She was raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey, and educated at Boston University and the University of Colorado. From 1991 till 2013, Hollander was writer-in-residence at Lyon College. She was married from 1976 to 2011.[1] Hollander lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches writing workshops at The Attic Institute for Arts and Letters and at Mountain Writers Series.[2]
Awards
2014 Oregon Literary Fellowship
2008 Subiaco Award for Literary Merit for Excellence in the Writing and Teaching of Poetry.
What the other eye sees. Wayland Press. 1991. Chapbook
Anthologies edited
Andrea Hollander Budy, ed. (2008). When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women. Autumn House Press. ISBN978-1-932870-26-8.
Jeanne Marie Beaumont; Claudia Carlson, eds. (2003). The poets' Grimm: 20th century poems from Grimm fairy tales. Story Line Press. ISBN978-1-58654-027-2.
Sue Ellen Thompson, ed. (2005). The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Autumn House Press. ISBN978-1-932870-06-0.
Utterly of-the-moment and thoroughly inclusive, When She Named Fire, in step with this historical importance, will hold the attention of even the most well read of interested poetry connoisseurs: even those already well-acquainted with women writers in particular.[6]