Adam Dalva
“The goal is to feel, every day, that I get to write—criticism, non-fiction, graphic novels. And always fiction, which is a wonderfully imperfect medium. Eventually, my characters start to move on their own: the stuff of fireside sparks. I've created systems and routines that allow me to write with no critics, no other writers, no readers in my head. And when I’m really writing, I can’t even hear my own voice.”
“Stunningly moving and evocative.”
“A story that has certainly come along at the right place and right time for our social fabric.”
Adam Dalva is the author of Olivia Twist, a graphic novel published by Dark Horse in 2019, co-written with Darin Strauss. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Guardian. Adam serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is a book critic for Guernica Magazine and Publishers Weekly. He is currently at work on a novel.
A professor of creative writing at Rutgers, Dalva was asked about his approach to teaching writing. He responded, “Teaching writing is my favorite thing—my approach is to give students the opportunity to write, read, and be read as writers. This means to read published writers as peers, not deities, and to treat one another with the same respect and care we’d give the greats.”
Dalva is a graduate of NYU's Fiction MFA Program, where he was a Veterans Writing Workshop Fellow. He is a writer-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center, and has attended writing residencies at The Vermont Studio Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Wildacres, Gullkistan, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. He teaches Creative Writing at both Rutgers University and Marymount Manhattan College.
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