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-three weeks on the BC Bestseller list.

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.