John Andrews grew up in Sheridan, Arkansas.
He is the author of Colin Is Changing His Name (Sibling Rivalry Press) which was a finalist for the 2018 Oklahoma Book Award and the 2015 Moon City Poetry Prize. Currently, he lives in Stillwater, OK, with his husband and is a Teaching Assistant Professor and the Director of K-12 Outreach in the Honors College at Oklahoma State University.

His poems have appeared in Ninth Letter, Columbia Poetry Review, The Boiler, Redivider, and elsewhere.  Along with being nominated for the Pushcart Prize, his poems have also been anthologized in The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South and Aim For The Head: An Anthology of Zombie Poetry.

John earned his BA in Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, his MFA in Creative Writing at Texas State University, and his PhD in English at Oklahoma State University.

He has taught creative writing, composition, and honors seminars at Northern Oklahoma College, Oklahoma State University, and Texas State University. Also, he has taught and mentored K-12 students with  Arkansas Governor’s School, Austin Bat Cave, Odyssey of the Mind, Junior Science an Humanities Symposium, and  Upward Bound.