Andy Reed was born in Portland, Maine, on February 11, 1966. His dad was from Missouri, but his mom's family had lived in Conway, New Hampshire. Being the sixth of nine children, he graduated from Kennett High School in Conway in 1984. For the last eighteen years he's lived in Wakefield, New Hampshire, about fifty miles to the south. While in high school, he wrote short science-fiction and fantasy stories, and even got them to give him his own independent study class. At the end of his senior year, he received a writing award. Almost twenty years later, he decided to start writing again, only this time delving into poetry. Mind you, Andy's poetry isn't what you'd expect. His style slowly evolved and gave him the contents of his first book of poems: Adrift (Off the Shores of Sanity). Having thoroughly enjoyed that endeavor, he continued to write as the poems came to him. Thus, his second book: Lost in the Head. While the first book incorporated writings from high school and through the years to the present, this book is all new. And if you aren't into poetry, don't worry, just try it. You'll see that it's different. It steps out and gets your attention.