Andrea Portes

Andrea Portes is a bestselling American novelist. Her novels include: Hick, Bury This, Anatomy of a Misfit and The Fall of Butterflies. Portes was raised in rural Nebraska, outside of Lincoln. She later attended Bryn Mawr College. After graduation, Portes moved to the neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles. In 2007, Portes published her debut novel Hick, which was an instant best seller. After the book's huge success, the movie adaptation of Hick went into production in 2011. The film, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Alec Baldwin, Eddie Redmayne, Juliette Lewis and Blake Lively premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. Portes's second novel, Bury This, was published in January 2014 by Counterpoint Press's imprint Soft Skull Press to critical acclaim. Portes' third novel, the critically lauded Anatomy of a Misfit, was published in September 2014 by HarperCollin