Bio
After nearly thirty years as a car and truck salesperson, Andrea Langworthy signed up for a writing class at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Walking into that first class, she was certain everyone in the room could see the bright neon sign over her head blinking, Not a real writer! Does not belong!
Three years later, Andrea writes a weekly newspaper column for the Rosemount Town Pages. She has been published in Lake Country Journal magazine and Talking Stick, volume 13. Her essay, “Is Everybody Smiling?” won second place in the non-fiction category of the Brainerd Writers’ Alliance 2004 contest and was chosen as a winner of the Birchbark Books holiday memory contest. She was the grand prize winner of The Purple Pen Editing Whisper Stories 2004 contest.
Talking Stick awarded Andrea second place in the creative nonfiction category of their 2005 contest and an honorable mention in the fiction category. These two pieces, along with a poem, will be published in Talking Stick (volume 14), a publication of the Jackpine Writers’ Bloc.
FundsforWriters named Andrea’s essay, Atonement, one of 11 finalists (from 174 submissions) for their Fourth Annual Essay contest.
Drawing inspiration from her children, grandchildren and parents, she believes every one of life’s moments has the potential to become a column or a story and admits she is not above stealing the words right out of her husband’s mouth.
Andrea is a member of two writing groups, the Loft Literary Center, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and the Minnesota Newspaper Association as well as the League of Minnesota Poets.
