Adam Stumacher is an award-winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator. His short stories have been published in Granta, Narrative, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, TriQuarterly, and was anthologized in Best New American Voices. He has won a Nelson Algren Award and the Raymond Carver Short Story Award for his work. He has been awarded a scholarship from Bread Loaf and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Spiro Arts, and others. His nonfiction has also been published in the New York Times and WBUR’s Cognoscenti. He has taught creative writing at MIT, the University of Wisconsin, Saint Mary’s College, and GrubStreet. He has also taught high school in urban areas for many years.