Cara Blue Adams is the author of the interlinked story collection You Never Get It Back (University of Iowa Press, 2021), named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and awarded the John Simmons Short Fiction Prize, judged by Brandon Taylor, who calls it “a modern classic.” The book was shortlisted for the Mary McCarthy Prize and longlisted for the Story Prize. For her stories, she has received the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize, the Missouri Review Peden Prize, and the Meringoff Prize in Fiction, along with selection as a Pushcart Prize Notable. Over twenty-five appear in Granta, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, Epoch, and Electric Literature, among other magazines, and her essays in The Believer and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press, 2015). She has been awarded scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Center for Fiction, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Lighthouse Works, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Disquiet International. A former coeditor of The Southern Review, she is an associate professor at Seton Hall University and lives in Brooklyn.