Author Adam Schwartz taught writing at Wellesley and Harvard for twenty-five years, where he won an award for excellence in teaching. At Wellesley, he spent many years directing and training the writing tutors and developing innovative tutoring programs. He also served on the Wellesley College Board of Admissions and conducted workshops to help students write their graduate school personal statements.
Schwartz's short stories have been published in The New Yorker and in numerous anthologies. He is the author of A Stranger on the Planet, winner of Moment Magazine's Emerging Writer Award and a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. He has been awarded two major artist grants from Massachusetts Cultural Council, a James Michener Award from The Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and fellowships from the Yaddo and MacDowell .
At MacDowell, Schwartz worked on his second novel.
