Andrea Lochen

Andrea Lochen is the author of two novels to date. Her first novel, 'The Repeat Year' was highly praised as 'an engaging, satisfying read' and draft of the work won the 2008 'Hopwood Novel Award'. Her second novel, 'Imaginary Things' has been equally well-received and its sheer originality, being about a single mother who can see her child's imaginations coming to life, which combines mystery and suspense with accounts of uninhibited and cataclysmic events, sets Lochen on a course which will...See more

Andrea Lochen is the author of two novels to date. Her first novel, 'The Repeat Year' was highly praised as 'an engaging, satisfying read' and draft of the work won the 2008 'Hopwood Novel Award'. Her second novel, 'Imaginary Things' has been equally well-received and its sheer originality, being about a single mother who can see her child's imaginations coming to life, which combines mystery and suspense with accounts of uninhibited and cataclysmic events, sets Lochen on a course which will inevitably see her as one of the foremost new authors of her age. She studied creative writing, earning a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was a Colby Fellow, a Bachelor's degree in English having been secured at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the fiction editor of 'The Madison Review'. Since 2008, Lochen has taught undergraduate writing at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, and was recently awarded the 'UW Colleges Chancellor's Award' for excellence in teaching. Andrea Lochen currently lives in Madison with her husband and daughter, determined to pursue her alter-writing career. See less