Ginger Andrews

Ginger Andrews was born and raised in North Bend, Oregon, and lives there still. She runs a small house cleaning business with her three sisters, who all live within walking distance. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, as well as in Poetry, The American Voice, The Hudson Review, MARGIE, Ship of Fools, The Oregonian, and The Writer. In 1997, she received the Mary Scheirman Poetry Award. She is a former secretary and janitor for the North Bend church of Christ, where she teaches Bible class to preschool children on Wednesday nights.


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Story Line Press legacy tittle, Ginger Andrews An Honest Answer, white script text against emerald green background.
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An Honest Answer

Ginger Andrews

Publication Date: June 1, 2021

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“The presiding spirit behind Ginger Andrews’ first book, An Honest Answer, must be William Carlos Williams. When he said he wrote in the speech of Polish mothers, he could have included the American working class anywhere. The sinewy resilience in Andrews’ individual poems honors the tradition of his free verse lyrics. She listens for the poetic measure in American speech and reproduces it in unique forms. I would venture to say that the poetry of Ginger Andrews is as close to the tradition of Williams as American free verse has ever been. . . . As for the voice speaking to us in these poems, it is as fresh as Ray Carver’s seemed twenty-five years ago. Another poet who comes to mind is her fellow Northwesterner Vern Rutsala, himself a descendent of Williams, who, like Williams, has kept his eye on the working poor throughout his career. Andrews is working class, born again in Sappho, an Ahkmatova who cleans houses and teaches Sunday school. These figures come to mind not for the sake of hyperbole, but to help understand the originality of this new and remarkable poet.”
— Mark Jarman

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Tradepaper: $20 / ISBN: 9781586540661
Casebound: $30 / ISBN: 9781586540883

Story Line Press legacy tittle, Ginger Andrews Hurricane Sisters, white script text against emerald green background.
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Hurricane Sisters

Ginger Andrews

Publication Date: June 1, 2021

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Hurricane Sisters, award-winning poet Ginger Andrews’ second collection, contains poems of fierce candor and sharp, unique awareness from the perspective of Andrews herself, a cleaning woman in North Bend, Oregon. These Carver-esque insights into the everyday of the American working class balance grief, depression, lust, poverty, and, above all, faith; not in something beyond or higher than the living experience, but in a spirituality amidst the material truths of this world, even under the grimmest of circumstances. Hurricane Sisters stares into the holy, the barbaric, the beautiful and the hideous, the realities of blue-collar Americana, with the frankness and empathy of a survivor and a believer. It sees everything and never averts its eyes.

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Tradepaper: $20 / ISBN: 9781586540753
Casebound: $30 / ISBN: 9781586541101