Andrea Jurjević is a multigenre writer, literary translator, and visual artist. She was born and raised in Rijeka, Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia, before emigrating in the late ‘90s. English is her second language. After her arrival to the United States, she studied Journalism, started a painting practice, and a decade later earned an MFA in Creative Writing.

She is the author of two poetry collections and a chapbook: In Another Country, selected by Roberto Tejada for the 2022 Saturnalia Books Prize, Small Crimes (Anhinga Press, 2017), selected by C. G. Hanzlicek for the 2015 Philip Levine Prize and by Elizabeth Hughey for the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year award, and Nightcall (Willow Springs Editions, 2021), which was selected for the ACME Poem Company Surrealist Poetry Series. Her book-length translations from Croatian include Olja Savičević’s Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and Marko Pogačar’s Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020), which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.

Her poems, stories, translations, and essays have appeared in publications such as The Believer, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, Joyland, The New Republic, The Writer’s Chronicle, and many others. She is the recipient of a Robinson Jeffers Tor Prize, as well as fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Hambidge Center.

She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and works as a faculty in the English Department at Georgia State University and Poetry mentor at MTSU Write. She also serves as a poetry editor of Josephine Quarterly as well as as a board member of the International Library of Poetry, which is an extension of the Ulysses Shelter residency on the Croatian island of Mljet.

In addition to her literary work, Andrea creates intuitive abstract paintings that move between the real and imagined. Her art draws from the dreamworld, the natural world, and the poetic imagination.