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Kim Adrian is a Boston-based writer who has published four books of creative non-fiction. Dear Knausgaard, described by The Boston Globe as “intimate . . . erudite, and often funny,” and Sock, part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series, are both works of lyric criticism. Her memoir, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, part of the University of Nebraska’s prestigious New Lives Series (edited by Tobias Wolf), was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist. She's also written the libretto for an opera called The Strange Child, based on a fairy tale by E.T.A. Hoffman, and edited The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, an anthology of lyric essays praised in The Millions as providing “a sense of hope about literature and its capacity for evolution and change." Three of her works have been translated into Mandarin. Several of her essays and stories have been listed as Notable or Distinguished in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She received her BA from Barnard College (Cultural Anthropology) and her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and has taught creative writing at Brown University, Grub Street, and the Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop. Kim is currently working on a novel about the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, excerpts of which have won the support of a fellowship at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf (Germany), a special residency at the Villa Concordia in Bamberg (Germany), and a 2025 Individual Artist Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
SELECTED PAST EVENTS: Guest Speaker, “Self and Sequence: The Lyric Diary.” Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington July 25-26, 2025
★ Guest Speaker, Auto/Bio/Fiction Series, Goldsmiths University of London, January 9, 2025
★ Guest Speaker, Whipple Fellowship, Brookline High School, July 11, 2023
★ Guest Reader, Cardin Reading Series, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, April 11, 2022
★ Panelist, “The Hidden Lives of Ordinary Things,” Haystack Book Festival, October 2, 2021
★ Panelist, “Talking Back to Books,” Boston Book Festival, June 10, 2021