Andrea LochenAndrea Lochen is the author of two novels to date. Her first novel, `The Repeat Year’ was highly praised as `an engaging, satisfying read’ and draft of the work won the 2008 `Hopwood Novel Award’. Her second novel, `Imaginary Things’ has been equallywell-received and its sheer originality, being about a single mother who can see her child’s imaginations coming to life, which combines mystery and suspense with accounts of uninhibited and cataclysmic events, sets Lochen on a course which will inevitably see her as one of the foremost new authors of her age. She studied creative writing, earning a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was a Colby Fellow, a Bachelor’s degree in English having been secured at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the fiction editor of `The Madison Review’. Since 2008, Lochen has taught undergraduate writing at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, and was recently awarded the `UW Colleges Chancellor’s Award’ for excellence in teaching. Andrea Lochen currently lives in Madison with her husband and daughter, determined to pursue her alter-writing career. Read More Read Less