Bio & CV

Andrea Ballou’s debut collection, Other Times, Midnight, winner of the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize is forthcoming from Persea Books in April 2025. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Barrow Street, Black Rabbit Quarterly, Copper Nickel, FIELD, Lily Poetry Review, Plume, The Missouri Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in Romance Languages and Literatures and an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize; she is the recipient of a National Resource Fellowship, a Tinker Foundation Grant, and an Artist’s Fellowship and a Project Grant from the Somerville Arts Council. Andrea has taught creative writing and literature at numerous universities and colleges and currently facilitates the Poetry Lab at the VNA Senior Living at Highland in Somerville. She divides her time between Somerville, Massachusetts and Brooks, Maine.