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 six full-length poetry collections: And Now, Nowhere But Here, Blue Mistaken for Sky, Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, 1982 - 2012 (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. Her many other honors include two Pushcart Prizes (poetry and literary nonfiction), and two poetry fellowships the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, college textbooks, and such literary journals as Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, FIELD, Five Points, and Creative Nonfiction, as well as a feature in The New York Times Magazine . Hollander lived in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains for more than three decades. There she ran a bed-and-breakfast inn for fifteen years and served as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College for twenty-two. There she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Since 2011 she has lived in Portland, Oregon, where she established The Ambassador Writing Seminars, which she taught in her home until COVID, and now online via Zoom.