Who, me?
Andrew Walker (he/they) is a writer born and raised in Colorado. They hold a BA in English from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where they co-founded the Slamogadro Poetry Slam, co-wrote The Hall Monitor-Herald—a weekly satire column for the Rocky Mountain Collegian—and co-wrote, co-produced and performed in various theatrical productions for the Fort Collins Fringe Festival. In Denver, they performed twice at Liminal, a fundraising event for Stain’d Arts and Soul Stories and were a contributor for the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has received honorable mentions from the Ninth Letter Literary Award and the Three Day Chapbook Contest. They have been a participant in the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and hold an MFA in creative writing from Northern Michigan University where they were the managing editor for Passages North.
Their short stories, poems and essays have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, Kissing Dynamite, Pidgeonholes, HAD, paperplates, Apricity Press, Eckleburg and elsewhere.