Cara Blue Adams is an American

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born in

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, raised in Vermont, and resident in Brooklyn, New York. She won the

Iowa Short Fiction Award The Iowa Short Fiction Award is an annual award given for a first collection of short fiction. It has been described as "a respected prize" by the ''Chicago Tribune'', and ''The New York Times'' considered it "among the most prestigious literary p ...

in 2021 for her debut collection of short stories, ''You Never Get It Back.'' Her short fiction also won ''The Kenyon Review'' Short Fiction Prize in 2008 and was first-runner up for the '' Blue Mesa Review'' Fiction Prize in 2010. Her work has appeared in many journals, including ''

The Kenyon Review ''The Kenyon Review'' is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College. ''The Review'' was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959. ' ...

'', ''

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'' and
The Sun
'. She earned her MFA degree from the

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. From 2011 to 2013 she served as fiction and non-fiction editor of ''

The Southern Review ''The Southern Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established by Robert Penn Warren in 1935 at the behest of Charles W. Pipkin and funded by Huey Long as a part of his investment in Louisiana State University. It publishes fiction ...

'' and is currently an associate professor at Seton Hall University.

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''The Southern Review''
Living people 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American women writers American magazine editors American short story writers American women non-fiction writers American women short story writers Seton Hall University faculty Women magazine editors Writers from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Writers from New Hampshire University of Arizona alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-story-writer-stub