Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic. He is a a Contributing Fiction Editor of The Yale Review and an Assistant Teaching Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University. Adam is the President of the National Book Critics Circle.

Adam is a graduate of NYU's Fiction MFA Program, where he was a Veterans Writing Workshop Fellow. He is a writer-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center, and has received fellowships from Scotland’s Hawthornden Castle, The Bergman Estate on Fårö, Iceland’s Gullkistan, the Vermont Studio Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Wildacres. His graphic novel, Olivia Twist, was published by Dark Horse in 2019. Adam previously served as a judge of the 2022 Story Prize, the Books Editor of Words Without Borders, and the Senior Fiction Editor of Guernica.