Kitrell Andis

Kitrell Andis was born in 1951. He taught writing at colleges, mental hospitals, and in private tutoring. His work has been published in magazines and newspapers around the US. He has two published novels, BOOKSTORE and THE SUMMER HO CHI MINH DIED, and three chapbooks of poetry, LOCATIONS, HEARTS MAKE FISTS and LIKE PARADISE ONLY DIFFERENT. A new book-length collection of poems DAYS FOR AN OCCASION was released in 2016. His inspirational recovery narrative HALFWAY HOUSE: A STORY was published under the pen name J. Durbin in 2014. A second edition was released in 2022 under his own name.