About Andrew Tarica
Andrew Tarica is an award-winning writer, editor and photographer.
Born in New York City, he began his career as a sports reporter for the Longmont Daily Times-Call in Longmont, Colorado, and Colorado Daily in Boulder in 1989.
Tarica moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1991 and spent four years as a reporter and editor for the Kirkland Courier, covering a range of beats including city politics, local business and the police blotter.
In 1992, he won the Washington Newspaper Publishers Award for Best General News Story and Best Sports Story. His 1994 story on the “Inauguration Day Windstorm” won the WNPA’s Best Breaking News Story.
In 1995, Tarica worked as a foreign correspondent for the Seattle-based Pacific Rim News Service. He spent the year filing feature stories from locations such as Sydney, Australia; Rangoon, Burma; and Ujung Pandang, Indonesia. His story on the opening of the new American Embassy in Vietnam, the first day of business since the fall of Saigon 21 years earlier, was filed from Hanoi.
Tarica has since worked as a writer and editor for Alaska Airlines Magazine, Microsoft and MLB.com in New York, where he helped launch milb.com, the official website for Minor League Baseball in 2005. He also spent a season (2008) as the digital marketing producer for the Kansas City Royals.
Tarica is a regular participant and former speaker at the annual Book Passage Travel Writing & Photography Conference in Corte Madera, California. His travel writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Salt Lake Tribune, Newsday, San Diego Tribune, Rocky Mountain News and San Francisco Chronicle.
Tarica’s first-person account of the Outback Mail Runs in Australia was featured in the travel anthology True Stories of Life Down Under (Travelers’ Tales, 2000).
A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Journalism & Mass Communications, Tarica is currently the Digital Marketing Director at The Frye Company, America's oldest boot brand, where he edited and collaborated on the book Frye: The Boots That Made History (Rizzoli, 2013).
He lives in New York City.
Striking gold in the Bolivian jungle, October 2017.