Andrea Hollander

Born in Berlin, Germany, of American parents, raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey, and educated at Boston University and the University of Colorado, Andrea Hollander (formerly Andrea Hollander Budy) is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, finalist for the Oregon Book Award, Woman in the Painting, The Other Life, and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Other honors include an Oregon Poetry Fellowship, the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes (poetry and literary nonfiction), the Runes Poetry Prize, two poetry fellowships the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Arkansas Arts Council. In 2008 she received the Subiaco Award for Literary Excellence in the Writing and Teaching of Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and college textbooks, including Writing Poems, The Poets' Grimm, and The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Her work appears regularly in such literary journals as Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, FIELD, Five Points, New Ohio Review, and Creative Nonfiction. For more than 22 years, Hollander served as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, which awarded her the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 2011 she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she teaches writing workshops and seminars in poetry and the personal essay.