Andrea J. Nolan

Biography

Andrea J. Nolan grew up in Columbia, Maryland and got her undergraduate degree from Washington College. After working for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as an environmental educator, and founding Amphibious Horizons, a sea kayaking business she ran for six years, Andrea quit all that to focus on writing books. She is the author of Sea Kayaking Maryland's Chesapeake Bay and Sea Kayaking Virginia. She has a MFA in fiction from Old Dominion University, and has fiction and essays published in journals such as Flyway, Dogwood, Alligator Juniper and the Potomac Review. Her essay, "Edges," was acknowledge as a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays 2009 and is being reprinted in the Potomac Review's 50th anniversary issue, "Best of 50." She currently teaches writing and literature at Old Dominion University.

Selected Works

Reviews & Interviews
Binocular Vision - A Review
Book review of Edith Pearlman's Binocular Vision: New and Collected works. http://fictionwritersreview.com/reviews/binocular-vision-by-edith-pearlman
A Triptych of Interviews with Natalie Diaz
http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/all-issues/january-2011/a-triptych-of-interviews-with-natalie-diaz/
Literary Journals
Not Your Grandfather's Nature Writing: The New Nature Journals
A look into the revolution of place-based nature writing. http://fictionwritersreview.com/essays/not-your-grandfathers-nature-writing-the-new-nature-journals
The Islander
The Islander was published in Flyway, Vol 13.1, in Winter 2010.
Sister Hercules
Published in the Spring 2010 edition of Dogwood: A journal of poetry and prose.
How To Lead A Sea Kayaking Trip During A Norte
Published in the 2010 edition of Alligator Juniper.
Edges
"Edges," is an essay published in the Potomac Review. Issue 44. Fall 2008.
Travel
Sea Kayaking Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay
A narrative guide of 30 trips on tidal tributaries and coastlines in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.
Sea Kayaking Virginia
A paddler's guide to day trips from Georgetown to Chincoteague.