About Andrew Madigan

Andrew Madigan lived in the Emirates for 8 years researching and writing Khawla’s Wall. He’s also lived in Tokyo, South Korea, the UK, Okinawa, New York, St. Louis and exotic Northwest Ohio. For many years he was a university professor and magazine editor, but he’s also been a janitor, pizza delivery man, lifeguard, coach, bouncer, construction worker, turf-Zamboni driver, substitute teacher, swimming instructor, Bill Murray’s body double, voice-over artist, sandwich-board carrier, and factotum at a Catholic rectory. His work has appeared in The Believer, The Iowa Review, The North American Review, The London Magazine and The New Haven Review. As a teenager he excelled on a TV quiz show; now he enjoys drinking absinthe and collecting records. Andrew is currently a freelance writer living in the Washington, DC area with his wife and three daughters.