Andrea Moorhead was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1947, and lived there until 1962 when the family moved to Connecticut where she spent her adolescence before going to Pennsylvania to study philosophy and French at Chatham University. She moved to upstate New York with her husband Robert, where, in 1972, they founded the international poetry journal Osiris, one of the first journals in the United States to publish poems in foreign languages. In 1976, they settled in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where they taught at Deerfield Academy for thirty-eight years. Retirement brought the opportunity to establish A&R Design, a graphic design and editorial consulting practice.
      Moorhead writes both in English and in French. Her most recent collections are Tracing the Distance (The Bitter Oleander Press) and À l’ombre de ta voix (Le Noroît). Her translations of Francophone poetry include the work of Abderrahmane Djelfaoui, Élise Turcotte, Hélène Dorion, and Marie-Christine Masset. Visual poetry is a special love; her photos appear in numerous international literary journals.
      Moorhead’s poems often develop multiple voices that interact. Sometimes it is the Earth that speaks, sometimes a person. The interplay between different voices creates dynamic tension in the poems and allows the reader to participate on many levels.
      Over the years, Moorhead has incorporated ecological concerns and world events in her writing. The impact of global conflicts, natural disasters, and human destructiveness has become an important aspect of her work. The impact of wars and climatic extremes on people’s lives is the focus of poems that move the reader towards the transcendent nature of the human spirit.