Adam Atlas was born in Louisville, Kentucky and holds a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Arizona State University. His story “New Year’s Weekend on the Hand Surgery Ward, Old Pilgrims’ Hospital, Naples, Italy” appears in New Stories from the South: Best of the Year, 2010 and also won Second Place in Narrative’s Winter 2009 Story Contest. His first published story, “The Delinquents,” also appeared in Narrative. Atlas lives in New York City.