About the Poet

About Andrea L. Fry

Andrea Fry is the author of three poetry collections: Pawn Shop of Coincidence (Grolier Poetry Press, October 2026), The Bottle Diggers (Turning Point Press, 2017) and Poisons & Antidotes (Deerbrook Editions, 2021). Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and The Sun among others. Andrea is a member of the New England Poetry Club and serves on the Grolier Poetry Bookshop board in Cambridge, MA.

Andrea first spent twenty years in technology marketing and then went to Columbia University to change careers into nursing. She worked as a cancer nurse practitioner for seventeen years in New York City at Columbia Presbyterian, NYU Langone and most recently at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Andrea now lives in Boston, MA with her husband and two cool cats.