Bio & CV

Andrea Ballou is the author of Other Times, Midnight, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize (Persea Books, 2025). Her poems and reviews have appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Lily Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Plume, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Andrea has been awarded a National Resource Fellowship, a Tinker Foundation Grant, Artist Fellowships from the Somerville Arts Council, and residencies at Joya/AiR in Spain and Civitella Ranieri. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in Romance Languages & Literatures and an MFA from Lesley University. Andrea has taught writing, literature, and language at Stanford University and The University of Chicago. Currently, she is the Director of the Poetry Lab for Elders at the VNA in Somerville, where she has taught poetry and creative writing since 2018. She divides her time between Massachusetts and mid-coast Maine.