A bit about Andrew:
"Growing up for me was helicopters and MacDonald’s.

I was the slow kid whom the family was always waiting on. They would come up stairs to find me staring at the ceiling, and when asked what I was doing, I would reply, 'Just thinking.' I’ve lived many lives in my years. Some of them have been in my head, but the realities were sometimes the stranger of those lives. One can imagine with the richness of my imagination and the richness of my experiences that I would naturally turn to writing, though it was first in distress that I turned to writing.

My parents divorced when I was 12, and being the quiet kid, I had no one to talk to, so I turned inward. After years of writing as a solace, I finally made the leap into becoming a writer, instead of someone who merely writes. My writing became something more, not just a comfort, but the focus of my life. I began to explore my childhood with all the wonders there.

I was born while my father flying helicopters in the Army. Later he went on to sell them taking us boys on trips around the country to buy and sell helicopters, and yes, it was on one of those trips that this five-year-old boy wanted to go to MacDonald’s, and my father took me in a helicopter.
At the time of my parent’s divorce my father was starting up a business sport fishing in Brazil, so I spent many of my pre-teen and teen years traveling to the Amazon on breaks from school to see my father. This was the reality, but I also lead another life in my head. I never had many friends growing up because as a child I never found much need for them because I was always going some where in my head. I would sit for hours going off on adventures in my head, which would later become fantastical stories I would tell the adults who would listen.

It was when the three combined that I truly began to write; a need to write, the material to write about, and the imagination to write with. I often have people ask me who a certain poem or story was about, but often they’re not about anyone, just someone I dreamt up, though some of them are about real people. I don’t like to separate fiction from nonfiction, but I’d rather blend them together. We’re just telling stories anyway, so what’s it matter?"

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