Steve Adams
Austin, Texas
HONORS AND AWARDS
Inclusion in The Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses 2014 Edition
Pushcart Prize Nomination, Nonfiction, The Pinch, 2012
Scholar at Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony – Nonfiction Workshop, Summer 2009
New York Fringe Festival – Musical Selected for Production in 2007 Fringe Festival
Santa Fe Writer’s Project – Winner in Writing Competition, 2002
Glimmer Train Press – Winner in Short-Short Story Award Competition, Fall 2001
Bronx Writer’s Center (through Bronx Council on the Arts) – Won Chapter One Fiction Competition, 2001
New School University MFA Program – Fiction Writing Scholarship, Fall 2000
University of Texas – Guest Artist, Playwriting/Theater, Fall 1996
Pushcart Prize Nomination, Fiction, Glimmer Train, 1994
Glimmer Train Press – First Place Winner of Short-Story Award for New Writers, Fall 1994
PUBLISHED WORKS
Creative Nonfiction/Memoir
“Balloons”
• Willow Springs – Winter 2012
“Touch”
• The Pinch – Winter 2012
• The Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses 2014 Edition (forthcoming)
“Saving Rob Lowe”
• Bull: Men’s Fiction (forthcoming)
Craft/Process Essays
“Your Sanctuary”
• Glimmer Train Bulletin – January 2012
Short Stories
“Sweet fruit of her soul and it is his”
• Quarterly West – Spring 2000
“The Chosen”
• The Missouri Review – Spring 1999
“Keeper”
• Glimmer Train Press – Fall 1998
• Redux: A Literary Journal
(Known academic use of text – University of Minnesota, Ethics in Literature class, 2000; cited in Beyond the Writers’ Workshop, by Carol Bly, 2001)
“I Think of Whores as Knife Edges”
• Georgetown Review – Spring 1997
“Redeemer”
• Chicago Review – Spring 1995
“The Fish”
• Glimmer Train Press – Fall 1994
• Literary Cavalcade (Scholastic Inc.) – April 1995
• Sudden Fiction (Continued) (Norton) – 1996
• The Drum (audio journal)
(Total readership of story: ~250,000. Known academic use of text in creative writing classes – UNC Greensboro, Oakland Community College [2002], University of Minnesota [2003])
PLAY PRODUCTIONS
New York City
“Cheez Doodles”
• Perry Street Theater
• Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art
• Upstate Summer Rep Theater (Buffalo)
“Who Killed Rufus?”
• Perry Street Theater
The Elvis Trinity (“Velvet Elvis,” “Love Child of the Gods,” “Elvis Was a Good Boy”)
• Circle Rep Lab (“Velvet Elvis”)
The Needs of Children
• The American Theatre of Actors
U.S. Auto
• Manhattan Class Company (workshop)
• Upstate Summer Rep Theater (workshop, Buffalo)
Slammer! (co-author; musical)
• Selected for production at the New York Fringe Festival
Elsewhere
Branson or Bust (co-author; musical)
• Opened The University of Texas’ Fall 1996 mainstage season (premiere)
“Cheez Doodles”
• Chameleon’s, Austin, Texas
• University of Texas at Arlington
• Twilight Theater Productions, Kenlake KY
“Family Portrait”
• Shoestring Theater, University of Texas at Austin
• University of Texas at Arlington
Passengers
• Shoestring Theater, University of Texas at Austin
• Pecan Street Theater, Austin, Texas
Moves
• Shoestring Theater, University of Texas at Austin
The Needs of Children
• Shoestring Theater, University of Texas at Austin
“This Month’s Menu”
• Commissioned for Chicago Dietary Board, Chicago, IL
“Velvet Elvis” (part 1 of The Elvis Trinity)
• L.A. Rep Company (workshop)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Panelist at Texas Association of Creative Writing Teacher Conference, Fall 2012
Guest lectured at New York University, Spring 2007
Organized and produced a reading series for Glimmer Train Press, Brooklyn, 2004
Juror for CUNY (City University of New York) grant application
Juror for Bronx Writer’s Center’s Chapter One Fiction Competition
Writing coach and writing seminar presenter (ongoing)
EDUCATION
The University of Texas at Austin, B.A. in Theatre
New School University, MFA in Creative Writing