Born in Ontario, Canada, Andrew C. Gottlieb grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts, and since 1998, he's lived on the West Coast of the United States, dividing his time between Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. He taught composition and short story writing at Iowa State University and at the University of Washington, where he received his MA and MFA in English and Creative Writing, respectively. He's been awarded grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the Seattle-based Artist Trust Foundation, and has been writer-in-residence at six different-often wilderness-locations including Denali National Park, Everglades National Park, the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Isle Royale National Park, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. His writing has appeared in many anthologies and journals including American Fiction, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, The Fly Fish Journal, Mississippi Review, Orion, Poetry Northwest, Poets & Writers, and Tampa Review, and he's currently on the editorial board for Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments. When he's not reading, writing, or with his family, he can often be found on a river.
