Andrew Thomas Kuster is a writer and musician. He has brought five scholarly editions to publication as Executive Editor of Music of the United States of America and teaches courses on writing and entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan School for Music, Theatre & Dance. His recent creative work includes the full-length music theater works The Soulless and Lessons With Hypatia and the cross-genre albums Sun Songs, Night, Soulless Dances, and pseudoporphyry fragments. Among his scholarly publications are the Kurt Weill Edition of Zaubernacht (co-editor), Heinrich Schütz's Geistliche Chor-Music, and Amy Beach's The Sea-Fairies. He received the Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Saint Olaf College, and earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, culminating with his dissertation Stravinsky's Topology. Now, he co-parents his beautiful son with special needs in Ann Arbor, Michigan.