Adam Straus
BIO
Adam Straus is a Marine veteran. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, The Hopkins Review, HAD, Colorado Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, JMWW, South Dakota Review, Pithead Chapel, trampset, Best Small Fictions 2024, and elsewhere. In 2022, Adam was named a runner-up for The Iowa Review’s Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award and he won the Proud to Be Anthology Fiction Award. He's also been longlisted for LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, and nominated for the the Best of the Net Anthology and the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. Adam holds an MFA from Rutgers-Camden. He lives in New York City with his fiancée and teaches English at a high school in North Jersey.
SELECTED FICTION
Pete Pete's Putt Putt Palace - The Missouri Review (BLAST)
Motorcycle Pope - The Iowa Review. Runner-up, 2022 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award
Slap Messenger - Maudlin House
Teaching a Young David Petraeus About War - HAD
Terry the Desert Tortoise - HAD
In the Woods - Iron Horse Literary Review. Finalist, 2023 PhotoFinish
Kill Chain - Rappahannock Review
Three Ways Out - trampset. Best Small Fictions 2024
The Tearaway Warmup Pants are Key - The Los Angeles Review
Fuck First Platoon - JMWW. Nominated, Best of the Net 2024
The Desert Tortoises of LA - Pithead Chapel. Nominated, Best Small Fictions 2023
ANA Checkpoint - Wrath-Bearing Tree