Andrea Brady

1974, USA / UK

Andrea Brady was born in Philadelphia in 1974 and has lived in the UK since 1998.  She studied at Columbia and Cambridge Universities and now teaches Renaissance literature at Queen Mary University of London.  She is director of the Archive of the Now (www.archiveofthenow.org), a digital repository of recordings of poets performing their own work, and co-publisher of Barque Press.  Her books of poetry include Vacation of a Lifetime (2001), Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination (2010), Mutability: scripts for infancy (2012), and Cut from the Rushes (2013).  Dompteuse is forthcoming from BookThug in 2013.  She has performed throughout Europe, the USA and Canada, and her work has been translated into Spanish, French and German.