Join American Short Fiction for the latest installment of My Constellation of 8 on May 17th at 6:30 p.m. CDT, featuring award-winning author Cara Blue Adams in conversation about eight of her literary influences with ASF‘s Mari Sabusawa Fellow Willie Fitzgerald. All book sales will benefit The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Live closed captions are available for all Google Chrome users.
About Cara Blue Adams
Cara Blue Adams is the author of You Never Get It Back (University of Iowa Press, 2021), which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award in the Iowa Short Fiction Award Series, judged by Brandon Taylor, who calls it “a modern classic.” Named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, You Never Get It Back was longlisted for The Story Prize and a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize. Over twenty of Cara’s stories appear in magazines such as Granta, The Kenyon Review, Epoch, Electric Literature, and American Short Fiction. She has received the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize, the Missouri Review Peden Prize, and the Meringoff Prize in Fiction, along with a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and a 2018 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship. Other support includes scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Lighthouse Works, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the VCCA, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn and is an associate professor of creative writing at Seton Hall University.
About The Center for Fiction
The Center for Fiction is a literary organization that celebrates the creation and enjoyment of fiction. This home for readers and writers in Brooklyn offers an immersive cultural experience with a vast array of public programming, writing workshops, reading groups, support for writers throughout their careers, and free programs for public school students.
Sponsors
This project is supported in part by the Whole Foods Market Community Giving Program, the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
