Andrea Kleine is a novelist, performance artist, and filmmaker. She is the author of the novels EDEN (HMH/Mariner, 2017), a finalist for the 2018 Publishing Triangle Award for LGBTQ fiction; and CALF (Soft Skull Press, 2015), a Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Book of 2015. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Bomb Magazine, Electric Literature, LitHub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. She has received numerous honors for her work including support from New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ucross, Baryshnikov Arts, Lighthouse Works, multiple MacDowell fellowships, and many others. Her recent evening-length performance works include My Dinner with Andrea: the piece formerly known as Torture Playlist, commissioned by New York Live Arts, and Screening Room, or, The Return of Andrea Kleine (as revealed through a re-enactment of a 1977 television program about a “long and baffling” film by Yvonne Rainer), commissioned by The Chocolate Factory Theater. Her feature-length nonfiction film, The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be, created in isolation during the pandemic, premiered at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and is currently streaming. She is working on a new film, We Want to Be Ready, and a new novel, How to Make Friends with Birds. She lives in Upstate New York.