Andrea Rinard

Andrea Rinard is a former long-time English teacher and now full-time student in the University of South Florida's MFA program. Her YA manuscript won the Key West Literary Seminar’s 2020 Marianne Russo Award for a novel-in-progress. She was nominated for Best of the Net in 2020 and 2021 and Best Small Fictions in 2020 for her flash fiction and has work in such places as Cease, Cows; The Jellyfish Review; Lost Balloon; and X-R-A-Y. A native Floridian who wears shoes against her will, Andrea lives in Tampa in what would be an empty nest if the kids would quit coming back. You can find her at www.writerinard.com and on Twitter @aprinard.