Adam Atlas

Adam Atlas was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and holds a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Arizona State University. His story “New Year’s Weekend on the Hand Surgery Ward, Old Pilgrims’ Hospital, Naples, Italy” was a 2011 PEN/O. Henry Recommended Story and also won Second Place in Narrative’s Winter 2009 Story Contest

Prize anthology mentions

O Henry Prize Stories 2011

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