Gail Galloway Adams (born 1943) is an American

short story writer A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

, and editor.

Life

She grew up in Central Texas. She taught at

West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College ...

, retiring in 2008. She edited ''Arts & Letters''. Her work appeared in ''Kenyon Review'', ''The Georgia Review'', ''North American Review,'' ''Story Quarterly''. She lives in

Morgantown, West Virginia Morgantown is a city in and the county seat of Monongalia County, West Virginia, Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Monongahela River. The largest city in North-Central West Virginia, Morgantown is best known as th ...

Awards

* 1988

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor. Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringi ...

* 1994 West Virginia Professor of the Year from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Works

Anthologies

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References

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