Andrea J. Buchanan is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author whose most recent book is the novel Five-Part Invention. Her memoir of her experience with spinal CSF leak, The Beginning of Everything, was a finalist for the 2019 PEN E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing. Andi has volunteered with the Spinal CSF Leak Foundation since 2018 and was named executive director in 2021.
