ANDREW STEINMETZ is an author and singer-songwriter.

Born in Montréal, Andrew Steinmetz writes fiction, poetry and nonfiction. His latest novel Because (2023) is a tribute to the post-punk ethos rooted in the Montreal underground music scene of the early 1980s. His other books include This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla (Biblioasis 2013) which was a finalist for the 2013 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and Eva's Threepenny Theatre (Gaspereau Press 2007) a novel which won the City of Ottawa Book Award and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He was the founding editor of Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint at Véhicule Press and edited twenty books for the series before stepping down in December 2013. A life-long musician and recording artist with former alt-country bands Weather Permitting and Good Cookies, Steinmetz learned guitar playing along to The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook.

He lives in Ottawa, on the unceded, unsurrendered traditional territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation.