Andy McPhee has worked in the publishing field for more than 30 years, starting as a writer and editor at Weekly Reader's mid-level science magazine and finishing as a healthcare textbook publisher for F. A. Davis, a major publishing house in Philadelphia. His narrative nonfiction book, Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town, published in 2023 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. McPhee is a Consultant and Fellow of the National Writing Project, and has earned two Feature Writing awards from the Association of Educational Publishers, now a division of the American Association of Publishers. McPhee is also a former registered nurse in critical and acute care--he practiced nursing for twenty-five years and taught nursing for ten. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.