Adam Stumacher is an author, educator, and consultant whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Narrative, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, and others, is a multiple notable recipient from Best American Short Stories, and won a Nelson Algren Award and the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He holds degrees from Cornell University and Saint Mary’s College and was the Carol Houck Smith fellow at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as well as residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Spiro Arts, and others. He is a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and he has taught at MIT, Framingham State University, the University of Wisconsin, and in prisons. A longtime educator, leader, and consultant in public schools, he has been awarded the Sontag Prize in Urban Education and a fellowship from the Lynch Leadership Academy at Boston College, and his commentaries on education appear regularly on NPR. After living in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, Adam currently resides in the Boston area with his wife, author Jennifer De Leon, and their two sons.