Andrea Grossman

Founder of Writers Bloc

Andrea Gelfand Grossman is a graduate of UCLA (B.A., English) and The Annenberg School of Communications at USC (M.A.). Before founding Writers Bloc, Andrea worked in pay television and home video programming and marketing, and was a fundraiser in California Democratic politics. Nineteen years ago, she founded Writers Bloc, a nonprofit literary series dedicated to bringing to Los Angeles our favorite novelists, public figures, social critics, comedians and journalists, to explore our local and national cultural landscape. Writers Bloc has become a model for author series nationwide for its innovative programming. She is married to Rick Grossman, Chief Legal Counsel for Dignity Health, and has three children.