Andra Nicolescu is a Romanian-American writer and human rights lawyer. Her short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Catapult Magazine, and Blunderbuss Magazine, is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Andra is working on her first novel.

Andra’s academic background in history and critical theory informs her projects. She also has a keen interest in ethnographic methods, oral history, archival research, and textual analysis of multimedia and film in the creation of literature.

Her writing is deeply inspired by her grandmothers, the poet Otilia Nicolescu and the lifelong diarist Paraschiva Poştoacă. She is presently working on a family memoir exploring themes of womanhood, art, history and cross-cultural identity.

Andra currently works as an international human rights lawyer, and is the founder of Dissenting Fictions, a collaborative platform at the nexus between the literary arts and human rights. Conceived as a space for exploration, sharing, alliance-building, and project-making, Dissenting Fictions reflects Andra’s commitment to uplifting and amplifying the power of literary voices to advance social justice and human dignity and kindness.

Andra was raised in New York and Pitesti, Romania, and has also lived in Cameroon, Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, where is she currently based.