Grolier Hybrid Reading — Andrea L. Fry and Sarah White (Zoom stream 2021)
Grolier Poetry Book Shop Presents a Hybrid Reading featuring Andrea L. Fry and Sarah White
October 7, 2021 at 7 pm
Andrea L. Fry was born in Dallas, raised mainly in New York City and the Catskill Mountains, and educated at Union College and Columbia University. She published her first collection of poems, The Bottle Diggers, in May 2017 (Turning Point Press). Her second collection Poisons & Antidotes follows in August 2021 (Deerbrook Editions). She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She was a finalist in Georgia College’s Arts & Letters Prize contest, a semi-finalist in the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and a semi-finalist in River Styx International Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Stanford Literary Review, St. Petersburg Review and others. Andrea is an oncology nurse practitioner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Sarah White studied Italian language and literature and medieval French at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. She is the author of the full-length collections of poetry Cleopatra Haunts the Hudson (2007), Alice Ages and Ages (2010), The Unknowing Muse (2014), and Wars Don’t Happen Anymore (2015). White’s other publications include the chapbook Mrs. Bliss and the Paper Spouse (2007) and the lyric memoir The Poem Has Reasons: A Story of Far Love (2008), available online from Proem Press. She co-translated the collection Songs of the Women Troubadours (2000). White is professor emerita in French at Franklin & Marshall College and currently lives in New York City.