Andrew L. Huerta

Andrew lives in Tucson, Arizona and has spent the last 27 years working in Higher Education. Recently retired, for over 20 years Andrew worked as the instructor and advisor of undergraduate students who are the first in their families to go to college. Andrew also worked as the Director of the Ronald E. McNair Achievement Program at the University of Arizona and an Assistant Professor of Practice in charge of the Graduate School Preparation courses of UA’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Consortium. With his MA in Creative Writing and PhD in Education, he is the author of a collection of short stories entitled A Different Man (Bold Strokes Books), and is now looking to publish his first novel, Raggedy Anthony, and complete his second novel, The Martinez Mansion. As the youngest in a Mexican American family of six children, much of Andrew’s inspiration comes from his “Huerta-Lopez family history.” The remainder of his stories, both fiction and non-fiction, come from his travels, his time in Education, and his varied life experience in and around southern Arizona.