Grace Andreacchi [An-dré-AH-ki] was born and raised in uptown Manhattan, but has lived on the far side of the great ocean for many years  - sometimes in Paris, sometimes Berlin, and nowadays in London, where she keeps a newt for special company.  Rigorously educated by the Sisters of Saint Ursula, she went on to study drama with the great queen of that art, Stella Adler, dance with Margaret Craske, and philosophy at the finest institutions of higher learning in New York and London.  All this was rather a while ago.  Since then she has done many things, some of which may or may not be shadowed forth in the novels Scarabocchio and Poetry and Fear, Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent's Tail) and Give My Heart Ease (New American Writing Award). She has also written several collections of poetry, including Elysian Sonnets and Other Poems (chapbook 1990) and Berlin Elegies. Her poetry and short fiction are also on splendid display on her CRASH TEST DUMMY.

Her work appears in Horizon Review, The Literateur, Cabinet des Fées and many other fine places. The award-winning play Vegetable Medley played to enthusiastic audiences in New York and Boston (USA). She was a noted collaborator in the multi-media show ‘Violin Music in the Age of Shopping’ (international tour), for which she was made an honorary fellow of the Rosenberg Foundation. Grace is managing editor at Andromache Books and writes an occasional literary blog, AMAZING GRACE. She is still married to the economics journalist and clever boots, Edward Hadas, and is mother to their three occasionally delightful, now fully grown children.