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Andi Rierden

Over the course of many years, Andi Rierden has published more than 1,500 articles, dealing with a range of topics from social justice to lifestyle issues. Her articles, commentaries and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the Halifax Chronicle Herald and a range of consumer, literary and academic magazines. She is also the author of two nonfiction books, has written for television and film and worked as a media relations specialist.

Andi has taught courses in feature writing, literary journalism, nature writing, editing, layout and design at Fairfield University and a course in Literary Travel Writing at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Before moving to Nova Scotia in 2000, she served as an editor for a number of news and literary publications From 2000 to 2006 she served as the online and print editor/manager for the Gulf of Maine Times, covering marine environment issues from Cape Cod, MA to Cape Sable, NS.

In 2007 she received a Distinguished Service award from the Gulf of Maine Council and the Nova Scotia Bay of Fundy Environmental Education and Awareness Award from the NS Department of Environment and Labour for her writings and other work promoting understanding and appreciation of critical issues facing the Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy.

Raised in Nebraska, she is the descendent of Irish homesteaders, farmers, educators and a U.S. Congressman. Andi and her husband Steven live on farm along the Bay of Fundy watershed in Nova Scotia. She is dual citizen of the United States and Canada.

In 2007 she launched Dentabella Words & Design, which provides writing, editing and design services nonprofits, micro-businesses, writers, artists and other individual professionals.