A recipient of the South Carolina Art’s Commission’s Fellowship in Prose, Kate Bullard Adams now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her novel-length manuscript Hang Me the Moon has just been named a runner-up for the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Award for the Novel; an excerpt was recently a finalist in the Novel Slices Contest. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Chautauqua, Harpur Palate, and The Briar Cliff Review, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Both her short and long fiction have reached the final rounds for other awards, including the A.E. Coppard Prize for Fiction (Coffee House Press), Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and the First Pages Prize. An excerpt from her novel-in-progress, Bailout, can be found on the“Works (of Fiction) in Progress” website (www.wipsjournal.com).

Kate has an undergraduate degree in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Virginia. There, she learned that she couldn’t design her way out of a paper bag. But she could talk her way out of a paper bag, and eventually words made their way onto the page. Over the years, Kate has attended an MFA’s worth of writers’ conferences with repeat visits to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the New York State Writers' Institute at Skidmore College. Nicholas Delbanco gave generous encouragement in the cornfields of Nebraska, and Margot Livesey and Claire Messud continue to be much-appreciated mentors.