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Cathy Adams

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Born
in Decatur, The United States
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Member Since
August 2012


Cathy Adams’ second novel, A Body’s Just as Dead, was released in August, 2018, from SFK Press. It was chosen for the Editor's Choice Award from Best New Writing. It also was selected as a finalist for the Eyelands Book Award and the Leapfrog Fiction contest. Her debut novel, This Is What It Smells Like, was published by New Libri Press, Washington. She is a Pushcart Prize nominated short story writer with stories published in The Saturday Evening Post, Utne, AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, Barely South, A River and Sound Review, Upstreet, Southern Pacific Review, and 55 other journals from around the world. She earned her M.F.A. at Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University, Washington. She lives and writes in Kansas Ci ...more

Average rating: 4.2 · 56 ratings · 22 reviews · 6 distinct works
A Body's Just as Dead

4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
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Polychrome Ink Volume II

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This Is What It Smells Like

3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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