Samuel J Adams was born in Tokyo and grew up in northern California. His stories appear in Spork, Ruminate, Beecher's, Literary Orphans, BULL, Coffin Bell, New World Writing, and elsewhere and are forthcoming in DIAGRAM. He recently completed his MFA in fiction at Bowling Green State University and will begin a residency in the fall of 2018 at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City.