Adam Levin

Adam Levin's stories have appeared in Tin House McSweeney's and Esquire . Winner of the 2003 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize Levin holds an MA in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. His collection of short stories Hot Pink will be published by McSweeney's Books in 2011. He lives in Chicago where he teaches writing at Columbia College and The School of the Art Institute. The Instructions is his first novel.