Anatomy of a Misfit

About Andrea Portes

Andrea Portes is the bestselling novelist of two critically lauded adult novels Hick her debut which was made into a feature film starring Chloe Grace Moretz Alec Baldwin Blake Lively Eddie Redmayne and Juliette Lewis and Bury This. Her first novel for young adult readers Anatomy of a Misfit was called perfection in book form by Teen Vogue. Andrea grew up shuffled around between such disparate locales as Nebraska Brasilia Texas Rio de Janeiro Baltimore North Dakota California Wisconsin and North Carolina. Finally Andrea was granted relief from this nomadic existence when she was accepted to Bryn Mawr College. She attended on a full scholarship and later graduated cum laude with a major in English literature. She then earned her Masters in Fine Arts degree from UC San Diego. After her relentless education Andrea moved to the neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles where she spent years mostly getting into trouble. It was in this period of vague nothingness that Andrea penned her debut novel in longhand in three notebooks. Currently she lives in Los Angeles with her husband Sandy Tolan their son Wyatt and their dog Rascal. You can visit her online at www.andreaportes.com.