ANDREA “ANDI” WERBLIN REID (1965–2022) is the author of Lullaby for One Fist (Wesleyan, 2001) and Sunday with the Sound Turned Off (Lost Horse, 2014). Her poem "Language is the Virus" was named a finalist for the prestigious Perkoff Prize from the Missouri Review and her work has been published in the LA Review of Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Brooklyn Rail, Pank, Smartish Pace, and more. Her last reading was given at Turning The Tide Ovarian Cancer Retreat when her illness was quite advanced. It was a triumph.

Because we are more than our work, here is a bit about how she lived. Andi moved to Barcelona because it was her dream; hiked the grand canyon to prove a point; named her cat Dash because zoomies and punctuation; married a kind, funny scotsman she met at a wedding; wrote about stretch pants and decor for a living; was mistaken for Velma by a trick-or-treater; rocked hard, loved her people, fought injustice and was cremated with her bouquet of orange gerbera daisies and her Doc Martens.

She wrote To See Yourself As You Vanish for herself and for others whose lives are touched by cancer and asked her friends to get it into the world after her death. It is our joy and privilege to do it.