Cathy Adams

Cathy Adams was recently nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize for her short story, “Asphalt Chiefs.” Her first novel, This Is What It Smells Like, was published by New Libri Press, Washington, and she has been published in Utne, A River and Sound Review, Upstreet, Portland Review, Steel Toe Review, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, among others. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop and now lives and writes in Xinzheng, China.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Fiction) 2016*

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