Adam Stumacher's fiction has appeared in Granta, Narrative, The Kenyon Review,
The Sun, TriQuarterly, and others, was anthologized in Best New American Voices,
and won the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. His nonfiction has appeared in the
New York Times and he is a regular contributor to WBUR’s Cognoscenti. He holds
degrees from Cornell University and Saint Mary's College and was the Carol Houck
Smith fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He has been awarded a
tuition scholarship from Bread Loaf and residencies from the Vermont Studio
Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Spiro Arts, and others. He has
taught creative writing at MIT, the University of Wisconsin, Saint Mary's College, and
Grub Street, and he has many years experience as a teacher in urban high schools,
for which he was awarded the Sontag Prize in Urban Education and a fellowship
form the Lynch Leadership Academy at Boston College. He is the author of a short
story collection, Eleven Kinds of Exile, and is currently working on a novel.