mail@andreascrima.com
www.andreascrima.com

Andrea Scrima is a writer and an artist; born in New York City, she studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, where she lives and works. Scrima has received numerous awards for her artistic work, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Lingen Art Prize, and has exhibited internationally.

She has just published her first book, A Lesser Day, with Spuyten Duyvil Press, Brooklyn, New York. A Lesser Day has been reviewed favorably in The Brooklyn Rail, Bookslut, and the online literary magazine KGB BarLit, and an extensive interview with the author recently appeared on the blog “Things I’d Rather Be Doing.”

Scrima was the recipient of a literature fellowship from the Berlin Council on Science, Research, and the Arts in Berlin, Germany, and won a 2007 National Hackney Literary Award for Sisters, a short story from an ongoing collection titled In the Blood. She has critical writing forthcoming in The Rumpus and The Brooklyn Rail.