Bio - ANDREA LANI

In 2016, after working in the environmental field for two decades, Andrea Lani left her cubicle and dragged her husband and three sons to Colorado, her birthplace and heart’s home, where they hiked the 500-mile Colorado Trail. From this experience she wrote Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail (Bison Books, 2022), a memoir about escaping the disappointments of midlife while forging connections with nature and family.

Andrea's creative nonfiction explores the connections between humans and nature. Her 2018 essay “The Sparrow’s Song” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Other essays have appeared in Orion, Snowy Egret, The Maine Review, Zoomorphic, About Place Journal and other publications. She was an editor at the online journal Literary Mama for nine years, and she's been honored with two Hewnoaks Artist Residencies.

Andrea's fiction has been published in Willows Wept Review, Brain, Child Magazine, and Saltfront, among others. She's recently begun to write crime fiction, and her story "The Rest of the Story" was a finalist in the CrimeFlash fiction contest for the 2024 Maine Crime Wave conference.

Andrea teaches workshops in nature writing and journaling, writes articles and reports on topics related to nature and sustainability, and coaches other writers to craft and revise memoirs and novels.

Andrea has a BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program, she's a Maine Master Naturalist, and she's an Author Accelerator certified book coach in both fiction and memoir. She lives in Maine with her family.

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Andrea Lani is the author of Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail (Bison Books 2022). Her writing has recently appeared in Still Point Arts Quarterly, Northern Woodlands, and Labor of Love: A Literary Mama Staff Anthology, among other publications, and she's a regular contributor to Green & Healthy Maine Magazine. She's been honored with two Hewnoaks Artist Residencies, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist in the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance 2024 CrimeFlash fiction contest. Andrea has degrees in human ecology and creative writing from College of The Atlantic and the Stonecoast MFA Program and was an editor at Literary Mama for nine years. As an Author Accelerator certified book coach, Andrea guides emerging writers in developing and revising novels and memoirs, and as a Maine Master Naturalist, she teaches nature writing and nature journaling workshops around the state. She lives in central Maine.

Website: www.andrealani.com
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