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Andrew Fox

Andrew Fox was born in Miami Beach in 1964. His earliest exposure to the fantastic was watching the epic Japanese horror flick Destroy All Monsters at the age of three in the back of his parents’ convertible at a drive-in. He attended Loyola University and Syracuse University, where he studied social work and public administration, in addition to performing as a traveling mime and writing and producing a multi-sensory play for blind children.

He returned to New Orleans in 1990 and lived there until 2009, when he relocated his family to Manassas, Virginia. In 1994, he joined award-winning science fiction author George Alec Effinger’s monthly writing workshop group, with which he remains active.

Andrew’s first novel, Fat White Vampire Blues, published by Ballantine Books in 2003, was widely described as "Anne Rice meets A Confederacy of Dunces." Its sequel, Bride of the Fat White Vampire, was published in 2004.

In 2003, Andrew married Dara Levinson; they now have three sons, Levi, Asher, and Judah. In August, 2005, Andrew and his family were attending Bubonicon in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans. Although their home was mostly spared, they were forced to shelter in Albuquerque and Miami for the next two months. Andrew returned to his job with the Louisiana Commodity Supplemental Food Program to help rebuild that program, prior to beginning work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Gulf Coast Recovery Office.

His most recent book, The Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501, was published by Tachyon Publications in April, 2009. He is currently completing work on two projects: The Bad Luck Spirits’ Social Aid and Pleasure Club, a major fantasy novel which intertwines a supernatural secret history of New Orleans with the events of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and its aftermath; and Fire on Iron, a steampunk dark fantasy novel set aboard ironclad gunboats during the Civil War.