Hanna Andrews studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago, and a PhD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 2006, she co-founded the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. She has served as Content Editor and Editor of the Poem-a-Day series at the Academy of American Poets, the curator of the Dikeou Literary Series in Denver, and Managing Editor of Witness Magazine. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Residence at UNLV, and lives in Las Vegas with her partner, Eryn Green, and their daughter Aya.