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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. 

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