ABOUT

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Kim Adrian is the author of two books of criticism: Dear Knausgaard (described by James Wood, literary critic for The New Yorker, as “a delight from start to finish”); and Sock (part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series). She wrote the critically acclaimed memoir The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, which was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, and edited the lyric essay anthology The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms. She lives in Boston and is currently working on a novel about the life, work, and death of the German Romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann. She is also a yoga teacher.
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SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS:
Artist Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council (2025) ★ Writing Fellow, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany ★ Finalist, Indie Book Awards (memoir category) ★ Salomon Curricular Grant, Brown University ★ Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artist, Wheaton College ★ Marianne Russo Award, Key West Literary Seminars ★ William Raney Scholar in Nonfiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference ★ Edward Albee Barn Fellowship ★ Artist's Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council (2008) ★ Editors’ Prize in Nonfiction, New Ohio Review ★ P.E.N. New England Discovery Award
SELECTED PRESS:
"What Happens When You Write Karl Ove Knausgaard a Letter?" Podcast interview originally on New Books Network, later featured on LitHub ★ Interview in Publisher's Weekly ★ Interview in Los Angeles Review of Books ★ Interview in Washington Independent Review of Books ★ Interview in Tin House ★ Interview in Barnstorm Literary Journal ★ Interview in Essay Daily ★ Interview in The Florida Review ★ Interview in Punctuate Magazine"The Face Behind the Mask" The Colin McEnroe Show, WNPR Connecticut Public Radio ★ "You Can Keep Your Socks On" The Colin McEnroe Show, WNPR Connecticut Public Radio ★ "Kim Adrian Recommends"  Poets & Writers"How Does Your Art’s Subject Shape the Process of Making It?" ArtSake