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Online Poetry Series: The Refuge of Witnessing with Andrea Deeken

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Andrea Deeken was born in rural Missouri. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer WordsThe Blue Mountain Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valley Voices, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize Contest and second place in the 2020 Blue Mountain Review LGBTQ Chapbook Contest. Her debut chapbook, Mother Kingdom, won the 2021 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest and was published in 2022 by Slapering Hol Press, the small press imprint of the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center. A former book editor, she has worked for the Multnomah County Library for fifteen years. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her wife and daughter. 

Website: andreadeeken.com

Twitter: @drelo

Instagram: @andrea.deeken