Andrea Fekete is granddaughter to Mexican and Hungarian immigrants, a native of the southern West Virginia coalfields, and an actual coalminer’s daughter. Author of the novel Waters Run Wild (Sweetgum Press) and poetry chapbook I Held a Morning (Finishing Line Press), her work has appeared in journals such as Chiron Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Kentucky Review, Montucky Review, Adirondack Review, ABZ, and in such anthologies as Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia (WVU Press). She recently compiled and edited a collection of poetry and essays, Feminine Rising (forthcoming Cynren Press, 2019) with co-editor Lara Lillibridge. Currently, she is seeking a publisher for her new novel manuscript, set in her hometown of Buffalo Creek, West Virginia.