"Andrea Hollander knows what to hold back as she lets us in. And so we willingly bring ourselves into her subtly registered emotional world. There’s a lovely blend of qualities at work here an unsparing eye, and a heart that humanizes what that eye sees." —Stephen Dunn

"In 'Still Life with Jonquils' Hollander says, 'The painter knows . . . we bring our own heat to the canvas.' Her readers enter poem after poem in this poignant and mature collection bearing the heat of their own lives. Hollander’s impeccable conversational diction does just what a poem should do; it raises the hairs on the nape of your neck."  —Maxine Kumin 

Andrea Hollander is the author of five full-length poetry collections and three chapbooks. Her many honors include two Pushcart Prizes (in poetry and literary nonfiction), two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, the Runes Poetry Award, the Ellipsis Prize, the Vern Rutsala Award, an individual artist fellowship from Literary Arts of Oregon, and two fellowships in poetry from the Arkansas Arts Council. Since her retirement after twenty-two years as the writer-in-residence at Lyon College in Arkansas, she has lived in Portland, Oregon, where she conducts creative writing tutorials, seminars, and workshops.