Adam Schwartz’s debut collection of stories, The Rest of the World, won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House 2020 prize for fiction. His stories have won Poets & Writers’ WEX Award, Philadelphia Stories’ Marguerite McGlinn contest, Baltimore City Paper’s story contest and have been published in Arkansas Review, Mississippi Review, Raritan, J Journal, Gargoyle, Popshot, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, Little Patuxent Review, and Saranac Review. A novella-length story appeared in December Magazine. His story collection was named a finalist in the 2019 Orison Book Contest, judged by Victor LaValle. His non-fiction has appeared in Newsweek, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Banner, Sewanee Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Chicago Tribune, The Forward, New York Daily News, Washington Independent Review of Books, Bethesda Magazine. He attended the One Story 2016 Writers’ Conference and Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2018. He has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. For 26 years, he has taught high school in Baltimore City.