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, 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 Dzanc Books' Short Story Collection Prize, 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.
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You can reach him at adamstraus29@gmail.com
SELECTED FICTION
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Pete Pete's Putt Putt Palace - The Missouri Review (BLAST)
Motorcycle Pope - The Iowa Review. Runner-up, 2022 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award
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Slap Messenger - Maudlin House
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Teaching a Young David Petraeus About War - HAD​​
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Kill Chain - Rappahannock Review
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Three Ways Out - trampset. Best Small Fictions 2024
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The Tearaway Warmup Pants are Key - The Los Angeles Review
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Fuck First Platoon - JMWW. Nominated, Best of the Net 2024​
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The Desert Tortoises of LA - Pithead Chapel. Nominated, Best Small Fictions 2023
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ANA Checkpoint - Wrath-Bearing Tree
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BOOK REVIEWS
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HEY YOU ASSHOLES by Kyle Seibel - Barrelhouse (forthcoming)
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HOMELAND by Richard Beck - The Los Angeles Review of Books
FINAL ENGAGEMENT by Christopher L. Izant - Colorado Review
THE MILITIA HOUSE by John Milas - Atticus Review
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SURRENDER by Brian O'Hare - The Hopkins Review
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