Andrew Krivak

Education: B.A., St. John's College, Annapolis (1986)

M.F.A., Columbia University (1990)                                                                                    

Ph.D., Rugers University (2003)     

Interests: Fiction Writing 

Selected Works:  Like the Appearance of Horses (Bellevue, 2023); The Bear (Bellevue, 2020); The Signal Flame (Scribner, 2017); The Sojourn (Bellevue, 2011); Editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edger Irving Williams, 1902-19012 (FDU Press, 2009); A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).   

Andrew Krivák is the author of five novels, two chapbooks of poetry, and two works of nonfiction. His 2011 debut novel, The Sojourn, was a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction and the inaugural Chautauqua Prize. He followed The Sojourn with The Signal Flame, set in fictional Dardan, Pennsylvania. His third novel, The Bear, received the Banff Mountain Book Prize for fiction, the Massachusetts Book Award, and was a four-year National Endowment for the Arts Big Read title. Like the Appearance of Horses, released in 2023, returned to the characters and landscape of Dardan, Pennsylvania and was a Library Journal selection for “Best Literary Fiction of 2023.” His fifth novel, Mule Boy, will be released February 24, 2026. As a poet, Andrew has published the short collections Islands, and Ghosts of the Monadnock Wolves, and in 2025 received the Moth Poetry Prize. He is also author of the memoir A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, and editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912, which won the Louis Martz Prize for scholarly research on William Carlos Williams. He holds a BA from St. John’s College, Annapolis; an MFA in poetry from Columbia University; an MA in philosophy from Fordham; and a PhD in literary modernism from Rutgers. Currently, Andrew is a discussion facilitator with the New Hampshire Department of Corrections Family Connections Center, and a Visiting Lecturer on English at Harvard. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.