Nin Andrews's previous publications include The Book of Orgasms, Why They Grow Wings, Spontaneous Breasts, and Someone Wants to Steal My Name. She received her M.F.A. from Vermont College

"The characters that populate 'the south' of Nin Andrews' No Excuses are a mixture of Green Acres and Carson McCullers. Andrews' gift for storytelling has never been stronger than in these quasi-autobiographical poems and prose poems with clairvoyant grandmas, roosters of questionable pedigree, one-armed farmhands, and a girl obsessed with holding her breath. Pour yourself some lemonade and take this book to the front porch swing of your imagination for some truly amazing surreal farm-lore." - Denise Duhamel