Andy Fogle is the author of Mother Countries, Across from Now and seven chapbooks of poetry, including Arc & Seam: Poems of Farouk Goweda, co-translated with Walid Abdallah.
He is the recipient of a 2021 Individual Artist Grant from Saratoga Arts to write poems related to abolitionist John Brown, some of which have appeared in Blueline, Tahoma Literary Review, Potomac Review, and Unlost. His work has also been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Sewanee Writers Conference, and he has won prizes from the Arlington (Virginia) Arts Council, the Virginia Poetry Society, RHINO magazine, and Toyon: Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art. His poetry, co-translations, and a variety of nonfiction have appeared in Best New Poets 2018, Still, Gargoyle, Parks & Points, Image, The Writer’s Chronicle, Blackbird, and elsewhere.
He is poetry editor at Salvation South.
A first generation college graduate, Andy was born in Norfolk, raised in Virginia Beach, spent many years in the DC area, and now lives with his family in Saratoga Springs NY. He has taught English at Bethlehem Central High School since 2005 and been an educator of one kind or another since 1997, when he began the MFA program at his undergraduate alma mater, George Mason University. Over the years, he has taught in a wide variety of settings with a wide variety of folks: DC WritersCorps, DC Creative Writing Workshop, UMass Upward Bound, George Mason High School, Skidmore College, George Mason University, and others.
Get in touch at andy@salvationsouth.com