Andrea is a hobby poet & writer who teaches & translates for money & fun. Her creative work in English (her first foreign language) has been published in the collections Long River Review (University of Connecticut) & In Our Write Minds (University of Heidelberg):

Her poem “Ice Skating Love” won First Prize in the 2002 Windham Area Poetry Contest.

In 2016 she made her Stuttgart debut as a slam poet. A native of Germany, Andrea has lived in the USA, México, & Turkey, studying and teaching languages & learning to see the world from different perspectives.