andrea bennett is a National Magazine Award–winning writer and a senior editor at The Tyee.

andrea is the author of Hearty: On Cooking, Eating, and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (essays, ECW Press, 2024), the berry takes the shape of the bloom, (poetry, Talonbooks, 2023), Like a Boy but Not a Boy (essays, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), Canoodlers, (poetry, Nightwood Editions, 2014) and two travel guides, to Montréal and Québec City. With David Beers, they co-edited the anthology Points of Interest (Greystone Books, 2024), which spent twenty-five weeks on the BC Bestseller list and was the top 10 bestselling book in BC in 2024.

Their writing has been published by The Atlantic, the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, Vice, Reader’s Digest, Vogue Italia, Quill & Quire, Chatelaine, and many other outlets.

Prior to working at The Tyee, andrea edited and designed at Talonbooks and was the Editor-in-Chief of Maisonneuve. They’ve also worked as a bike mechanic, and spent a decade working in restaurant kitchens—sometimes responding to editors or fielding a call from a source while covered in bike grease or kitchen detritus.

Originally from Hamilton, they are now back on the west coast after a stint in Montréal. They hold a BA in English and French from the University of Guelph, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. They are represented by Rachel Letofsky at CookeMcDermid. They/them; Mx.