Emily Adrian
Emily Adrian is the author of the novels Everything Here Is Under Control and The Second Season, a novel about a former women’s college basketball star who becomes the first female NBA announcer, which Kareem Abdul-Jabaar called “riveting, insightful, and touching.” Her memoir, Daughterhood, published with Autofocus Press in 2024. She is also the author of two critically acclaimed novels for young adults, Like It Never Happened and The Foreseeable Future. She has published short fiction in Granta, Joyland, and Epoch. Her journalism and criticism have appeared in Alta and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a co-founder and senior editor at Great Place Books, where she also runs a popular series of seminars and workshops for writers of all ages. These range from open genre workshops to a seminar on the works of Alice Munro. A graduate of Portland State University, she lives in New Haven, Connecticut.