Andrea Ross

Andrea Ross writes essays, creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry. She formerly worked as a National Park Service ranger and wilderness guide throughout the American West. As an adopted person, she is passionate about bringing to light the experiences of adopted people. She teaches writing at the University of California, Davis.

She especially enjoys helping students view their writing as a knowledge-making practice. Also an avid outdoorswoman, Andrea has worked as a wilderness guide and owner of an all-women’s wilderness adventure travel company and as a national park service interpretive ranger. Andrea majored in Community Studies at UC Santa Cruz as an undergraduate and in graduate school at UC Davis, she studied English Literature with an emphasis on Creative Writing. Her research interests include Adoption Studies, Wilderness Studies, Feminist Rhetoric, Multimodal Composition and Podcasting, and her teaching areas include Environmental Writing, Business Writing, Advanced Composition and First-Year Writing.

Read more about Andrea and her work at https://www.andrearosswriter.com.