Andrea Fekete. Novelist. Essayist. Poet. Granddaughter to Mexican and Hungarian immigrant WV coal miners. Her MA thesis, Waters Run Wild, a novel of the WV coal mine wars describing women's children's, and immigrant life in coal camps, received acclaim in 2010 from publications such as New Letters Magazine and American Book Review.
Andrea Fekete. Novelist. Essayist. Poet. Granddaughter to Mexican and Hungarian immigrant WV coal miners. Her MA thesis, Waters Run Wild, a novel of the WV coal mine wars describing women's children's, and immigrant life in coal camps, received acclaim in 2010 from publications such as New Letters Magazine and American Book Review. (Sweetgum Press. Guestroom Press). She won Blue Earth Review’s Dog Daze CNF Summer Prize for an excerpt from her unpublished memoir Appalachian Girl [shattered]. With Lara Lillibridge, she co-curated Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility (Cynren Press) winning the Silver for Foreword Review’s Indie Book of the Year in women’s studies. Her work often appears in journals and anthologies such as Novus Literary Journal, Chiron Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Kentucky Review, Montucky Review, Adirondack Review, ABZ, and books such as Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Poetry and Fiction from West Virginia among many others. (WVU Press) An excerpt from her unpublished novel about a granddaughter of Mexican immigrants growing up in Buffalo Creek, Native Trees, was a finalist for 2019 Fiction of the Year in Still: The Journal. Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation grant recipient for a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She earned her MA in English from Marshall University and MFA in Creative Writing (fiction) from WV Wesleyan. She has taught at multiple institutions including Marshall University, Ohio University Southern, and Ashland CTC.
