Biography
Andrea Portes is the bestselling novelist of the critically lauded novel, HICK. The book was her debut novel and has since been optioned to be made into a feature film. Andrea Portes was honored to actually write the screenplay adaptation.
Andrea grew up shuffled around between such disparate locales as Nebraska, Brasilia, Texas, Rio De Janiero, Baltimore, North Dakota, California, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Finally, Andrea was granted relief from this nomadic existence when she was accepted to Bryn Mawr College, where she attended on full scholarship and later graduated cum laude, with a major in English Literature. She then earned her Masters in Fine Arts degree from UC-San Diego.
After her relentless education, Andrea moved to the neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles, where she spent years mostly getting into trouble and living in a world far beyond the ivory tower existence she had led for so long. It was in this period of vague nothingness that Andrea penned her debut novel, in longhand in three notebooks, somewhere amidst the hurly burly of those reprobate days.
Currently, she lives in the Franklin Hills of Los Angeles and is finishing up her second novel. Andrea was discovered and continues to be represented by Sally van Haitsma of the Julie Castiglia Agency and is a proud member of the Unbridled Books family, under the care of editor Fred Ramey.
