About
Andrea Warner
“Andrea Warner is one of the best music journalists in Canada.” — Elaine Lui, bestselling author, LaineyGossip.com
Andrea Warner writes and talks. A lot. Her third book, Rise Up & Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music, is for middle-readers and will be published Oct. 17, 2023 in Canada and the USA and Oct. 19, 2023 in the UK via Greystone Kids. She’s currently working on her fourth book, a collection of essays about Dirty Dancing for ECW.
Andrea is the author of Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography (2018) and We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music (2015). She’s the co-writer and associate producer of the 2022 documentary, Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On. Andrea also co-hosts the weekly feminist pop culture podcast, Pop This! and is an associate producer at CBC Music.
Andrea is a settler who was born and raised in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
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Andrea Warner was born and raised in East Vancouver, a settler on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Her pronouns are she/her/hers.
She spent childhood Sundays in her father’s secondhand shop and weeknights penning soapy teen novels by the light of streetlamps when she should have been sleeping. Today, she is a writer, critic, broadcaster, and podcaster focusing on music, arts, pop culture, and feminism. She’s the author of the bestselling book Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography (Sept. 25, 2018, Greystone) as well as the acclaimed 2015 book, We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music (Eternal Cavalier Press). Andrea is an associate producer at CBC Music and co-hosts the weekly podcast, Pop This!
Her radio work includes weekly music columns on CBC's Radio One's All Points West and Radio West, and she's also part of CBC Radio's Day 6 music panel. Andrea serves on the jury for the Polaris Music Prize and freelanced for six years as a theatre critic for the Georgia Straight. Her writing has appeared in Pitchfork, Bitch, Exclaim!, the Literary Review of Canada, Maclean’s, and the Globe and Mail, among others. She is a co-programmer of the Vancouver Podcast Festival.
Some of Andrea’s previous work lives include three years as the horoscopes columnist for Soap Opera Weekly, a year doing quality control for chat lines, teaching journalism and writing to youth who were victims and/or perpetrators of violence, call centre management, and a year as the music editor of an alternative weekly. Pop culture, art, and feminism make her happy. @_AndreaWarner