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Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum is a poet, editor, and educator. His first collection of poetry, Ghost
Gear, is forthcoming with the University of Arkansas Press and his anthology, Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, was released on December 21, 2012. He teaches college Creative Writing and English Composition,
writes reviews, interviews established and burgeoning writers, edits books and journals, and produces a podcast. Andrew was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. He received an Honors Degree in
English from Virginia Tech in 2003 and spent several years thereafter traveling the country while working as a political organizer for numerous campaigns,
as a chef for several family-owned restaurants, and as a project manager for landscaping, home contracting, and solar installation
companies along the way.
He married his wife,
Lisa, in 2006 and moved to Carbondale, Illinois that same year to attend the Masters of Fine Arts Program at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. In his three years at SIUC, Andrew completed one manuscript of poems and began work on
another while founding his website, PoemoftheWeek.org, in 2007, and The Little Grassy Literary Festival, which brings contemporary writers such as Robert Wrigley, Rick Bass, Carolyn Forche, and Joe Meno to SIUC each Spring, in
2008. He also served as Assistant Editor of The Crab Orchard Review, as Director of the Saluki Writers' Project, and as Assistant Director of The Southern Illinois Young Writers' Workshop. In 2009, he received the Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award from the English and Writing Studies Departments
at SIUC.
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Andrew was awarded his MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry that same year and
relocated with his wife to Los Angeles, California where he spent a year as a Research Assistant in a neurogenetics lab at
the Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute at the University of Southern California. He left the lab in 2010 for an Adjunct Professorships at Pepperdine University and Pacific States University. He also ran a creative writing workshop out of his home with LAwritersgroup.com, taught literature courses with Prep Academy, and tutored in subjects from ESL to GRE Math in client's homes across Los Angeles. Recent poems, essays, reviews, podcasts, and interviews appear or are forthcoming in The Writer's Chronicle, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Ascent, Glimmer Train, American Literary Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Poet Lore, The Missouri Review, storySouth,
Blackbird, InsideHigherEd.com, Eclipse, Copper Nickel, New Letters, Hayden's Ferry Review, Potomac Review, and The Southern Indiana Review,among
others. Check out his teacher ratings at RateMyProfessors.com here, and please feel free to contact him anytime via email at AndrewMK@AndrewMK.com.
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