André Spears was born and raised in New York City, where he worked for some 25 years as a charter broker and part-owner in the Greek-American shipping business, from which he is now retired. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature, and lives in Greenwich Village with his wife, Anne; they are the parents of three sons.

He is the author of the sci-fi poem in prose Letters from Mu (Part I ), which was published as an artist's book in France in 2000 by Voix Editions, with over 50 drawings by the Swiss artist Gilgian Gelzer, and is available through Printed Matter. Excerpts from this work-in-progress appear in First Intensity (#12, Spring 1999) and Pierogi Press (#9, Fall 2002). His translation of the faux-Rimbaud "The Spiritual Hunt" ("La chasse spirituelle") appears in First Intensity #15 (Fall 2000).

Other work includes a collaboration with the French artist Jean-Marc Scanreigh on the artist's books Lost in Space (Editions du Paon-Saint-André, Paris, 2001) and United States (Editions de l'Oiseau qui dit tout, Brussels, 2002).

Academic publications include articles in  Comparative Literature ("Evolution in Context: `Deep Time,' Archaeology and the Post-Romantic Paradigm," Fall 1996 )and The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (“Warlords of Atlantis: Chasing the Demon of Analogy in the America(s) of Lawrence, Artaud and Olson," 28.2-3, June-September 2001 ).

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