Andrea N. Richesin is the editor of four anthologies,Crush: 26 Real-Life Tales of First Love; What I Would Tell Her: 28 Devoted Dads on Bringing Up, Holding On To, and Letting Go of Their Daughters; Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond; and The May Queen: Women on Life, Work, and Pulling it all Together in your Thirties. Her anthologies have been excerpted and praised in The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Parenting, Cosmopolitan, Bust, Salon, Daily Candy, and Babble. She is a regular contributor to Daily Candy, Red Tricycle, San Francisco Book Review, and The Children's Book Review.

Andrea (Nicki to her friends) grew up in the beautiful foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in eastern Tennessee. Unlike most tortured artistes, she enjoyed her childhood playing outdoors with her sister and spending time with her close-knit family. Nicki also treasured her summer adventures in Sweden, Mexico, and most often France. She has worked as an ESL teacher in a small village in the Pyrenees of southwestern France, an editorial assistant in London, and as an editor at Red Herring magazine, the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s magazine Edutopia, and McCann-Erickson in San Francisco.

 For the past eight years, Nicki has worked closely with the Marin Literacy Program as both a tutor and teacher with the Families for Literacy program through Head Start. She lives with her husband and their sweetly irascible daughter in northern California.