Biography

Andrea Rexilius is the author of: Sister Urn (Sidebrow, 2019), New Organism: Essais (Letter Machine, 2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks: Afterworld (above/ground press), Séance (Coconut Books), and To Be Human (Horseless Press), and editor of the anthologies: We Can See into Another Place: Mile-High Writers on Social Justice (Bower House/The Bookies, 2024) and The Braided River: Activist Rhizome (Essay Press, 2015). She earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005), and a Ph.D. in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2010). Andrea is the Program Director for Regis University’s Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing. She also teaches in the Poetry Collective at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.