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Cherokee Nation citizen Andrea L. Rogers writes fiction and nonfiction and is the author of “Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story. Visit her online at https://andrealrogers.com/

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Andrea L. Rogers is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but currently splits time between Fort Worth, Texas, and The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. She graduated with an MFA from the Institute for American Indian Arts. Her literary horror and speculative fiction stories have been published in Waxwing, Yellow Medicine Review, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Transmotion, and are forthcoming from The Massachusetts Review and River Styx. Capstone published her children’s book Mary and the Trail of Tears which was included on the best books of 2020 by both NPR and American Indians in Children’s Literature. Her essay, “My Oklahoma History” appeared in You Too? 25 Voices Share Their #METoo storiesfrom Inkyard Press. Her short story “The Ballad of Maggie Wilson” is included in Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids, a MG short story Anthology from Heartdrum, an imprint of Harper Collins which will be release on February 9, 2021. She is working on a picture book called, When We Gather, for Heartdrum.

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Andrea L. Rogers writes in a variety of genres, creating work for all ages. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a graduate of the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute for American Indian Arts. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Tulsa and an MFA in Creative Writing-Fiction. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but currently splits time between family in Fort Worth, Texas, and Fayetteville, where she is pursuing a Ph.d in English at the University of Arkansas. She is the mom of three daughters.

At IAIA, she was mentored by strong Indigenous writers and teachers. While there, she completed her short story collection Man Made Monsters, a meditation on love, loneliness, family, and the monsters in society. Cherokee people are centered in this collection, along with a cast of vampires, werewolves, zombies, aliens, ghosts, two handsome Princes, and a Goatboy. Her short stories have been published in Transmotion; Kweli Journal; Yellow Medicine Review; The Santa Fe Literary Review; Waxwing, The Massachusetts Review, and forthcoming from The River Styx. Capstone published her children’s book Mary and the Trail of Tears which was included on the best books of 2020 by both NPR and American Indians in Children’s Literature. Her essay “My Oklahoma History” was included in You Too? 25 Voices Share Their #MeToo Stories. Her short story “The Ballad of Maggie Wilson” is included in Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids, a MG short story Anthology from Heartdrum, an imprint of Harper Collins, which will be release on February 9, 2021. She is working on a picture book called, When We Gather, for Heartdrum.