A Brief Biography and Introduction From Andy Sima
“And it’s almost formatted like a blog post, how convenient!”
Hi! My name is Andy Sima, and I write things. I live in the United States of America, usually bouncing around between Minneapolis, Minnesota (my current home) and Chicago, Illinois (where I was born). I have the privilege to hold a Bachelor’s of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapaign. I graduated in 2021 with a double major in Earth, Society, and Environmental Sustainability, and Creative Writing, with a minor in Geography and Geographic Information Systems. When I’m not writing this blog, I enjoy reading horror novels, writing things other than these articles, playing video games, and exploring the outdoors.
If you’ve found this blog, congratulations! You don’t win a prize or anything, but feel free to poke around whatever I’ve posted here. You’ll get a much better sense of who I am by reading some of these posts that I’ve got thrown all around the place, but if you need something for a professional blurb and can’t get me to write one, for whatever reason, feel free to use the information here. You can also find my social media here. I have both a public-facing Twitter and Instagram.
This particular page is sort of a “living document,” a combination between a CV and a collection of links to things of mine that have been professionally published or that I’m particularly proud of. Right now it’s a bit sparse, but hopefully that will change with time. Most of the things I write for fun are just blog posts on here, which you can get links to at that handy-dandy purple menu right at the top. But this page is also a handy tool for me to keep track of everything I’ve done, where it is, when it was published, and so on and so forth. I’ll update it every so often.
Yes, I know the ads are tacky. I don’t know how to turn them off for static pages, nor do I know how to turn them off on specific posts. It is exceptionally frustrating, but I don’t have the time/mental energy to relearn Google’s adsense API to figure it out. Hopefully they aren’t in the way too much. But they help keep this website running!
Selected Professional Publications by Andy Sima, or the Author Also Known As Andrew David Sima
“Burn Zone” – 2021
An environmental memoir about time spent in a burn scar at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. Initially written in the summer of 2020.
Grand Prize Winner of the Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest and published digitally in Volume 3.2 of Q Magazine, 2021. Later published physically in Volume 3 of Q Magazine, 2021.
Additionally published in Illinois Storytellers, 2021.
Additionally published in the Fall 2021 edition of the University of Illinois Liberal Arts and Sciences News Magazine (their alumni newsletter), and digitally here, 2021.
“Beezlebub Dayz” – 2021
A short story of a punk rock festival, heat, and poor decisions. Initially written in 2018.
Published physically in Cornell’s Rainy Day magazine, Fall 2020 Edition, Vol. L, No. 2. It can be found digitally here. 2021.
“We Have Seen the Enemy, and it is Plastic” – 2021
An analytical piece detailing the difficult world of plastic pollution. Intially written in 2020.
Published digitally in Volume 4.1 of Q Magazine, 2021. Expected physical publication in Volume 4 of Q Magazine, 2022.
“Cooking with Time” – 2021
Series of recipes describing how to make human civilization out of just a few simple ingredients, but not how to fix their mistakes. Initially written in 2021.
Co-Winner of the short-lived Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) Food-Life Cycle Sustainability Writing Contest. Published digitally by iSEE in advance of their Fall 2021 Congress on Food Systems, 2021.
It’s on that page, I promise.
