Andrea Hoag

Contributor

Andrea Hoag is a book critic and essayist born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, whose literary reviews and reporting have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the Kansas City Star.

Articles and features

For this Kansas writer, Christmas concerts evoke childhood memories of her parents

Andrea Hoag

Lawrence violist Mary Tuven and composer and bassist Charles Kelso Hoag often brought their daughter, Andrea Hoag, to their wintertime performances when she was just a small child. Now all grown up, Hoag brings those decades-old memories to life in her short story “The Christmas Musicians.”