Andra Miller is a Senior Editor at Algonquin Books, and has worked in the company’s New York office for the past 12 years. Andra acquires and edits both literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. Recent favorites include Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities, by Amy Stewart, which hit the New York Times Bestseller List; Susan Hand Shetterly’s stunning collection of nature essays, Settled in the Wild; and Lucky Girl, a memoir by Mei-Ling Hopgood about what happens when an American girl’s life is thrown topsy turvy when her boistrious Chinese birth family come calling. Next year will see Algonquin’s debut of Caroline Leavitt’s next novel, which has already garnered much excitement: Pictures of You, as well as The Silver Girl, a novel by award-winning writer Tayari Jones.