Andy Meyer is Visiting Assistant Professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he teaches courses in the Norwegian language sequence as well as courses on Arctic literature and Nordic Nature. His research interests are in Ecocriticism, Poetry & Poetics, American Literature, Literature of the American West, and Arctic Studies, where his work is engaged in questions about the relationship between literary imagination and "wildness."

He completed his Ph.D. in English language and literature at the University of Washington in Seattle after receiving a B.A. in English from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He studied advanced Norwegian at the International Summer School at the University of Oslo in 2005 and was a Fulbright Roving Scholar of American Studies in Norway in 2015-2016. He has taught in a variety of both secondary and post-secondary settings, including independent high schools in Seattle, the University of Washington's English Department and Program on the Environment, and the Nordic Studies Department at Luther College.