Steve  Adams
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Steve  Adams
Writing Coach, Editor, and Writer
 

I’m Steve Adams, a writing coach and developmental editor with many years of experience, and an award-winning, widely-published author.

 
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As a writing coach and editor I’ve worked with everyone from beginners to those whose work has appeared on The New York Times Best Seller List.

My short stories and essays are widely published and my plays have been produced in New York City. I’ve won a Pushcart Prize, Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays. 

My debut novel, Remember This, was published by The University of Wisconsin Press in October 2022. 

 
 
 
Blurbs

The bright lights, subway squeal, grime, and AIDS tragedy of New York in 1988 become the backdrop as a young man’s sensibility—formed by the complicated loves and demands of his three sisters—tests itself against the push-and-pull compulsions of an illicit love affair. As we follow John Martin through this story, from New Braunfels, Texas, to the Big Apple, it becomes our story too: a look at the complexities all of us carry from past into future, fumbling at self-knowledge, hungering for experience.

Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

“Flawlessly crafted, original, and intimate. A haunting meditation on loss and desire, Stay with Me a Little Longer is a love letter to a gritty New York long surrendered to upscale coffee shops and apartment high rises, to the reckless passions of fading youth, to art and all its possibilities, and to beauty itself.”

Jennifer S. Davis, author of Our Former Lives in Art and Her Kind of Want

“Exquisitely written and full of longing, a tender and moving elegy for lost loves of every kind.”

Valerie Laken, author of Dream House and Separate Kingdoms