Andrew was born in Bolton in 1975. Andrew grew up in industrial town of Horwich, a mere five miles from Bolton but a million miles away from the culture of Bolton. His childhood was spent in the rusting work yards of railway works and in his father’s joinery workshop. He currently lives in West Yorkshire. His first pamphlets were produced out of the imagery and stories of these places and included Technical Support (denude 1997), Columns of Frozen Light (denude 1998) and Breathing Slowly? (denude 1999). He went on to work over the next ten years in high profile residences in the North West and North Wales. Undergoing several poetry installations in primary schools in Flintshire. His poetry has featured in Ambit, Interpreter’s House, North American Review, Poetry Salzburg, The Sunday Times and Transmission. Andrew is an award winning poet, writer and a nominee of the Jerwood-Arvon. His first full poetry collection, Ghosts of a Low Moon (Lapwing, Belfast, 2010) has been met with critical acclaim and the poem Why Guns Will Never Be Legal in England featured on the National Poetry Day 2010 broadcast of BBC Radio Four’s Poetry Please.

Andrew works as a journalist, editor and lecturer. Andrew has written for BBC television and for the independent film sector (winning Silver Medal for North West Short Film at Screen Stockport Festival for Master Motivator). He has been a columnist for The London Magazine. From 2004-2011 he was the Director of Incwriters. His workshops have been heard on BBC Radio Four.

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