Cara Blue Adams
Birth placeNew Hampshire, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Arizona (MFA)
AwardsIowa Short Fiction Award (2021)

Cara Blue Adams is an American author born in New Hampshire, raised in Vermont, and resident in Brooklyn, New York.

She won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 2021 for her debut collection of short stories, You Never Get It Back.[1] Her short fiction also won The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize in 2008[2] and was first-runner up for the Blue Mesa Review Fiction Prize in 2010.[3] Her work has appeared in many journals, including The Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine[4] and The Sun.[5] She earned her MFA degree from the University of Arizona. From 2011 to 2013 she served as fiction and non-fiction editor of The Southern Review and is currently an associate professor at Seton Hall University.

References

  1. ^ Ward, Sophie (December 15, 2021). "In Fragments, Debut Stories Render Early Adulthood's Quiet Challenges". The New York Times. Archived 2022-05-30 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  2. ^ "The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest". The Kenyon Review. Archived 2023-04-15 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  3. ^ Blue Mesa Review Fiction Prize > 2008 First-Runner Up Archived August 30, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Author bio". Narrative Magazine. Archived June 4, 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
  5. ^ "The Sun Magazine | Issue 406". The Sun Magazine. Archived 2023-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2023-04-07.