<p><strong>Andrew Durkin</strong> is an author, songwriter, composer, and editor based in Portland, OR. His first book,<em> Decomposition: A Music Manifesto</em> (Pantheon, 2014), was one of Los Angeles Magazine’s “Best Little Music Books” of 2014. For more than ten years, he led the Industrial Jazz Group, a Los Angeles-based big band that released five critically acclaimed recordings, was featured on NPR, and toured the US and Europe. At Inkwater Press, he edited <em>No God Like the Mother</em> by Kesha Ajose Fisher, winner of the 2020 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction sponsored by the Oregon Book Awards. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief at Yellow Bike Press, and author of the Bibi Blundermuss middle-grade fantasy series. In 2022, he will also release a debut singer-songwriter collection, <em>Critical Kid</em>.</p>
