Cara Blue Adams reads her fiction at the 2014 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. 

Cara Blue Adams‘s stories have appeared in Narrative, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Kenyon Review, Epoch, and the Sun. Her essays and criticism appear in the Rumpus, Ploughshares, and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press, 2015). She has been awarded The Missouri Review William Peden Prize and The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize, together with scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the VCCA, and she was recently named one of Narrative’s “15 Below 30.”

Raised in Putney, Vermont, Cara earned an MFA from the University of Arizona and went on to serve as editor of Southern Review. She now lives in Conway, SC, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Coastal Carolina University.

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