This week we visit with Andrea L. Rogers in Mountainburg, Arkansas.
Andrea L. Rogers is an award-winning author of historical and contemporary fiction across a variety of genres. Her first book, Mary and the Trail of Tears is historical fiction, which is pretty much horror for Native people. It was on both the NPR & American Indians in Children’s Literature best of 2020 lists.
Her critically acclaimed Young Adult Horror Novel, Man Made Monsters, was released by Levine Querido in October 2022. It includes illustrations by Jeff Edwards (Cherokee). The novel received the Walter Award and several other accolades. She also authored a YA novel of Cherokee Futurism called The Art Thieves, released in August 2024. Her debut picture book about Southeastern tribes and wild onion dinners (the opposite of horror) is called When We Gather, illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw). A second picture book, Chooch Helped, arrived in October 2024, illustrated by Rebecca Kunz(Cherokee). Chooch Helped won the 2025 Caldecott Medal.
Andrea is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She currently attends The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville where she is a doctoral student in English. Andrea graduated with an MFA from the Institute for American Indian Arts. She taught Art and HS English in public schools for 14 years. She has three wonderful children.
Andrea's Books on the Bed:
A Golden Treasury of Song and Lyrics by Francis Turner Palgrave
The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleasing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875 by Gary Clayton Anderson
The Ballad of Black Tom and The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror by W. Scott Poole
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
Fall in Line, Holden! and Herizon by Daniel W. Vandever
Matt's Gifts for Andrea:
Roots of My Fears: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror (Edited by Gemma Amor)
The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis
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