Born and raised in Southern California, Adam Prince has since lived in New York, South Korea, Arkansas, Nicaragua, and Knoxville, Tennessee. His award-winning fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and Narrative Magazine, among others. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee in May of 2012, coinciding with the publication of his first book, a collection of stories called THE BEAUTIFUL WISHES OF UGLY MEN. During the 2012-2013 school year, he will serve as the Tickner Fellow at the Gilman School in Baltimore. He is married to the poet Charlotte Pence and is currently at work on a novel that takes place in Jakarta, Indonesia.