Andrei Codrescu s-a nascut in Romania, la Sibiu, iar actualmente traieste in Statele Unite ale Americii, la New Orleans. Cele mai recente carti ale sale sunt New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City, Algonquin Books (2006) si Miracol si Catastrofa, Editura Hartmann (2006). Poet, romancier si eseist, printre scrierile sale din ultimii ani se numara: Wakefield (2004), It Was Today: New Poems (2003), Casanova in Bohemia (2002), Messiah (1999), Hail, Babylon: Looking for the Ame...