Adam Reid Sexton

ADAM REID SEXTON is the author, editor, or adapter of more than ten published books. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, the Mississippi Review, and the Bellevue Literary Review, and on the Websites babble.com, smithmag.net, and underwaternewyork.com.

Sexton curates and emcees the reading series "SCPS@​KGB" at KGB Bar in New York City, and he has read from his work, appeared on panels, or otherwise performed at the Knitting Factory, Pete's Candy Store, and the Tank Theater. He has lectured at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, the Penn Club in New York City, and in Central Park. He has been interviewed about teaching, writing, and literature by the New York Times, Time, the Washington Post, Poets & Writers, and npr.com, and one of his classes was broadcast on BBC radio.

The work of Sexton’s students and former students has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Newsday, the New York Post, Time Out N.Y., the New York Press, New York Stories, AGNI, McSweeney's, the North American Review, and Shenandoah; on salon.com and smithmag.net; and in books published by Crown, Penguin, St. Martin’s, Warner, Citadel, Downtown Press, Four Walls Eight Windows, the University of Nebraska Press, and the University of New Mexico Press.

Sexton received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, and his M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from the School of the Arts at Columbia University. Currently the head of the writing program at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, he teaches a private writing workshop and lives in Brooklyn with his wife Kira and their son Alexander.