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Adam Prince

Born: in Southern California
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Prince is a member of the Creative Writing Faculty at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.

Biography: Born and raised in Southern California, Adam Prince earned his MFA from the University of Arkansas and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. His award-winning fiction has appeared in ''The Missouri Review'', ''The Southern Review'', and ''Narrative Magazine'', among others. In 2012 - 2013, he served as the Tickner Fellow at the Gilman School in Baltimore. In 2013, he and his wife, poet Charlotte Pence, joined the Creative Writing faculty at Eastern Illinois University.


Awards:
  • One of the Best Twenty New Writers by ''Narrative Magazine'' in 2011

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: AdamBPrince@gmail.com
Website: http://adamprinceauthor.com
Adam Prince on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=adam+prince


Selected Titles

The beautiful wishes of ugly men :
ISBN: 9781480434370 OCLC: 851166194

Dzanc Books, Westland, MI : ©2013.

Men attempt to negotiate between their baroque imaginations and the realities of their actual lives in a dark, comic, nuanced, sexed-up collection of stories that might be offensive if it didn & rsquo;t feel so true.

The beautiful wishes of ugly men :
ISBN: 0982876661 OCLC: 893336147

Black Lawrence Press, New York : [2012]

A collection not only about lust and male bravado, but about the complex glories of love.

 

 

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