Andrea Towers

Andrea has over a decade of experience writing, consuming and marketing pop culture, both on camera and off. Her work has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide Magazine, IGN, Variety, Mashable, The Wrap, Polygon and many more publications. She currently works as an Associate Editor for TV Guide Magazine and TVInsider and was previously staffed at Entertainment Weekly and Nerdist. Outside of journalism, Andrea spent two years at Marvel Entertainment, where she served as the PR and marketing lead for the company’s comic book publishing line.

She is author of the nonfiction book Geek Girls Don’t Cry: Real-Life Lessons From Fictional Female Characters and the middle grade series Gamer Girls as well as various books for kids. You can find her work throughout the middle grade, YA and adult space.

In her free time, Andrea can be found cosplaying everything from superheroes to niche Linda Cardellini characters, running half marathons and adding to her out-of-control mug collection. She is also an enthusiastically huge fan of the superhero Black Widow, which is probably what she’s best known for. Her career highlights include Patrick Stewart asking her for a cappuccino, getting James McAvoy to curse in traffic, being invited to be a guest on The Muppet Show by Miss Piggy herself and interviewing Scarlett Johansson on the set of the Black Widow movie.

Andrea lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. She is represented by Sheyla Knigge of High Line Literary.