About the Author

Kitrell Andis is a poet and fiction writer whose work has been published in newspapers and magazines around the U.S. Since the mid-1970s. His darkly comic novel Bookstore charts the downfall of the retail book industry in an hilarious homage to the Olympia Press paperback originals of his youth. Andis's novel The Summer Ho Chi Minh Died looks at young men about to be drafted into the Vietnam war. Andis has taught writing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, the Free University of Indianapolis and at Central State Hospital. He has been a newspaper columnist, feature writer, advertising copywriter, and magazine editor, most notably with pLopLop throughout the 1990s, where he also co-edited their chapbook series, publishing over 20 titles in a ten-year period.