Newport MFA craft talk with Adam Stumacher

Best-selling authors and award-winning writers will present guest readings and craft talks during a week-long winter workshop being hosted by Newport MFA, Salve's master of fine arts in creative writing program. All events are free and open to the Salve Regina community as well as the general public, and anyone interested is encouraged to attend.

Adam Stumacher is an author and educator whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Narrative, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, and others, was anthologized in Best New American Voices, and won a Nelson Algren Award and the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He holds degrees from Cornell University and Saint Mary’s College and was the Carol Houck Smith fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He has been awarded a tuition scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as well as residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Spiro Arts, and others. He has taught at MIT, the Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Wisconsin, Saint Mary’s College, Framingham State University, and Grub Street. A longtime educator in urban schools, he has been awarded the Sontag Prize in Urban Education as well as a fellowship from the Lynch Leadership Academy at Boston College, and his commentaries on education appear regularly on NPR. After living in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, Adam currently lives in the Boston area with his wife, author Jennifer De Leon, and their two sons. He is working on a short story collection and a novel.