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

Adam is a graduate of NYU's Fiction MFA Program, where he was a Veterans Writing Workshop Fellow. He 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.