Andrew Gardner is a Chicago-born, Nashville-based writer with a penchant for the musical and narratively distressing. He carries the reader through the tunnels of his psyche hoping to find both knowledge of self and the light at the end. While predominantly focused on poetry, he has been known to dabble in dramatic forms and creative nonfiction as well as the occasional bit of music criticism. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in Writing in 2023.