Cara Blue Adams is the recipient of the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize and the Missouri Review Peden Prize and was named one of Narrative’s “15 Below 30.” She has been awarded scholarships and fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the VCCA. An assistant professor of creative writing at Seton Hall University, she lives in Brooklyn.
2008 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
Winter 2009
I Met Loss the Other Day
I met Loss the other day. I took his measurements. My yellow tape looped around my arm, pins held tight between my pursed lips, I circled him. I measured his […]
Jan/Feb 2017
Said Yes
Eight months ago this coming Tuesday a person I now understand to have been the devil offered me a deal, and I accepted, and the deal was this: president-elect Donald […]