Andrea is a multi award-winning speculative fiction writer and an educator born to Caribbean Windrush generation parents, based in the Southeast and London.

Her writing centres marginalised voices, examining themes of decolonisation, identity and belonging, and is driven by her core belief that, as Maya Angelou said, “Human beings are more alike than unalike”.

She is currently on submission with her YA/ crossover manuscript, Deity of a Drowning Realm, a multi-viewpoint cli-fi fantasy inspired by African-Caribbean mythology and history.

The manuscript won the 2023 Jericho Writers Self Edit Bursary, an Arts Council Develop Your Creative Practice Award, First Runner-Up in the Mo Siewcharran Prize 2024 and Second Place Text for Faber’s FAB Children’s Prize 2024. 

Using the DYCP research and development grant, she is collaborating with an African Diaspora researcher and filmaker and a Caribbean folklorist, developing ideas for a sequel.

When not writing, Andrea enjoys beach walks, travelling and world cuisine.