Although born in London, Andrea’s been living and working in The Netherlands for the last 30 years.

She began writing as a child but when, in the early 70s, Flower Power reared its enticing head she upped stakes, left England, and spent several years travelling in North Africa, Spain and France. She finally surfaced, finances seriously depleted, in Amsterdam and began her Dutch career by selling her artwork on the street and in local markets.
After spending another few years struggling with the language (not the easiest one to learn), she started working as a translator. In such spare time as she had, and in between raising two kids, she amused myself by writing humorous short stories and writing-related articles and conducting interviews, many of which, to her total amazement, have since been published in the UK, Canada and Australia and appeared in such illustrious publications as Buzzwords, Writers Cauldron, Voyage, Writers Muse, Plume, Asphyxia (AUS), Scribble and many others.

Her articles, poems, short stories and interviews can be found on various websites, including UKAuthors , which she owns and runs, along with UKA Press, a small independent publishing house, publishing non-fiction, fiction and poetry.

Her book, Blood and Wine are Red, a collection of 40 humorous tales, was published as a paperback in 2003.

Slower than she used to be, she now divides her time between her garden, her frogs, her cat, her youngest son, UKAuthors and UKA Press, in that order (at least in the summer).

In A Word is her first book of doggerel.

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