Acclaimed speaker and New York Times best-selling author Andra Watkins is a proud immigrant. She currently lives in Europe.

She authors the bestselling Substack For Such a Time As This (formerly How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life.) She speaks internationally about growing up in White Christian Nationalism in rural South Carolina.

She’s the author of five books and counting. Her acclaimed first novel To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis was published by Word Hermit Press on March 1, 2014. Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace is a memoir about her dysfunctional family adventure; it is a National Book Award nominee and a New York Times bestseller. Natchez Trace: Tracks in Time is a book of photography, shot during her 15-mile daily hikes on her 444-mile Natchez Trace walk. I Am Number 13 is Andra’s most recent novel, the thrilling next installment in the Nowhere series. Packed with immigrants, refugees, Honduran jungles, spying, and intrigue, all at the hands of the Biggest Scoundrel America Ever Produced!

Andra Watkins photo credit Jonathan Boncek.