Gail Galloway Adams

Gail Galloway Adams (born 1943) is an American short story writer, and editor.

Life

She grew up in Central Texas.^[1] She taught at West Virginia University,^[2] retiring in 2008.^[3] She edited Arts & Letters.^[4] Her work appeared in Kenyon Review,^[5] The Georgia Review, North American Review, Story Quarterly.

She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia.^[6]

Awards

• 1988 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• 1994 West Virginia Professor of the Year from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ^[7]

Works

• The Purchase of Order. University of Georgia Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8203-1734-2.

Anthologies

• Michael Pettit, ed. (1996). "Hunger". The Writing Path 2: Poetry and Prose from Writers' Conferences. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-548-6.
• Charles East, ed. (1993). "Inside Dope". The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-1524-9.

References

1. Communications, Emmis (1988-10-01). Texas Monthly. Emmis Communications.
2. http://eberly.wvu.edu/eberly_news/2008/3/10/award-winning-author-to-give-reading-at-wvu-mountainlair
3. http://search.wvu.edu/search?q=cache:MeC9bX4TUoEJ:english.wvu.edu/r/download/19699+Gail+Adams&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&ie=UTF-8&site=default_collection&access=p&oe=UTF-8
4. Ravenel, Shannon (2000-01-01). New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2000. Algonquin Books. ISBN 9781565122956.
5. Gail Galloway Adams (Summer 2004). "Olives". The Kenyon Review (New Series). 26 (3): 52–54. JSTOR 4338612.
6. "New Page 1". www.mountainlit.com. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
7. "History | About | West Virginia University". wvuhistory.wvu.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-09.

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