PROGRAM 48: BIO

Acclaimed speaker and New York Times best-selling author Andra Watkins lives in Charleston, South Carolina. I Am Number 13 is Andra’s latest novel, the next installment in the Nowhere series. She’s the author of five books, from her acclaimed first novel To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis, to Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace, a memoir about her dysfunctional family. Her memoir is a National Book Award nominee and a New York Times bestseller. Natchez Trace: Tracks in Time is a book of photography, shot during her 15-mile daily hikes on her 444-mile Natchez Trace walk. Andra says she’s still mad at her mother for refusing to let her major in musical theater. Her mom was convinced she’d end up starring in porn films.