Andrea Carter is the author of Figeater, winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize. A poet and writer from Southern California, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Mississippi Review, Crab Creek Review, Amsterdam Review, Comstock Review, Terrain, SWWIM, and The Florida Review. A finalist for the Bellingham Review Poetry Prize, she received the 2023 Steve Kowit Poetry Prize. She teaches at UC San Diego.