Cara Blue Adams

{{short description|American author}}

{{infobox writer

|name=Cara Blue Adams

|birth_place=New Hampshire, U.S.

|occupation=Author

|nationality=American

|education=University of Arizona (MFA)

|awards=Iowa Short Fiction Award (2021)

}}

Cara Blue Adams is an American author born in New Hampshire, raised in Vermont, and resident in Brooklyn, New York.

She won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 2021 for her debut collection of short stories, You Never Get It Back.{{Cite web|last=Ward|first=Sophie|date=December 15, 2021|title=In Fragments, Debut Stories Render Early Adulthood's Quiet Challenges|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/review/you-never-get-it-back-cara-blue-adams.html|access-date=2022-05-30|website=The New York Times|archive-date=2022-05-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530120022/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/review/you-never-get-it-back-cara-blue-adams.html|url-status=live}} Her short fiction also won The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize in 2008{{Cite web |title=The Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest |url=https://kenyonreview.org/submission/short-fiction/ |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=The Kenyon Review |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415171153/https://kenyonreview.org/submission/short-fiction/ |url-status=live }} and was first-runner up for the Blue Mesa Review Fiction Prize in 2010.[http://bluemesalit.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/2010-fiction-contest-results-are-in/ Blue Mesa Review Fiction Prize > 2008 First-Runner Up] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830062545/http://bluemesalit.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/2010-fiction-contest-results-are-in/ |date=August 30, 2010 }} Her work has appeared in many journals, including The Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine{{cite news |title=Author bio |work=Narrative Magazine |url=https://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/cara-blue-adams |access-date=July 17, 2020 |archive-date=June 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604215334/http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/cara-blue-adams |url-status=live }} and [http://www.thesunmagazine.org/ The Sun].{{Cite web |title=The Sun Magazine {{!}} Issue 406 |url=https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/406 |access-date=2023-04-07 |website=The Sun Magazine |language=en |archive-date=2023-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407203851/https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/406 |url-status=live }} She earned her MFA degree from the University of Arizona. From 2011 to 2013 she served as fiction and non-fiction editor of The Southern Review and is currently an associate professor at Seton Hall University.