Over Our Heads

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.