Andrew Fox was born in 1964 and grew up in
North Miami Beach, Florida. He attended Loyola
University in New Orleans, where he studied social
work and wrote a fantasy play for visually-handi-
capped children that involved the audience rubbing
their hands on a vaseline-coated foam rubber mer-
maid's tail and sniffing spoiled sardines. He has
worked as manager of the Louisiana Commodity
Supplemental Food Program, a federally-funded
monthly nutrition program for low-income senior
citizens. In 1995, following the death of his cousin
in the French Quarter on New Year's Eve due to a
falling bullet, he helped found the New Year Coali-
tion, an advocacy group that helps educate the pub-
lic about the dangers of celebratory gunfire. Also in
1995, he joined a monthly writing workshop found-
ed by award-winning SF author George Alee
Effinger.