Jennifer Adams

Jennifer Adams is a 2011 graduate of the M.F.A. program at Cornell University, where she now teaches as a Lecturer in Creative Writing. She was born in Cambridge, Mass., and grew up in Woodstock, NY; Camden, ME; and Philadelphia, among other places. She has lived in Rome, Florence, and Adelaide, Australia, and presently splits her time between Ithaca and Virginia Beach.

Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Dislocate, Sonora Review, Southwest Review, and The Warren Adler Prize Stories Anthology. Her work has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Short Fiction Contest, has thrice been a finalist at Glimmer Train, won second place in the 2011 The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Contest, and received honorable mention in the 2011 International Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award. She is presently at work on a novel about the Naval Special Warfare community in Virginia Beach.