Andrea Lani

Andrea Lani is the author of Uphill Both Ways: Hiking Toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail, a memoir about escaping the disappointments of midlife while forging connections with nature and family in the wilderness and confronting the damage humans have caused to the natural world, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press in March 2022.

Andrea's essays and short stories have been published in the anthologies Multiples Illuminated: Life with Twins and Triplets, the Toddler to Tween Years and This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West as well as a number of print and online journals, including Orion, Snowy Egret, The Maine Review, Zoomorphic, About Place Journal, Brain, Child Magazine, and Saltfront. Her 2018 essay “The Sparrow’s Song” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Andrea has degrees in human ecology and creative writing from College of the Atlantic and the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA Program. She teaches nature writing and nature journaling workshops and is a Maine Master Naturalist and a senior editor at Literary Mama. She lives in Maine with her family.