Adam Reid Sexton

ADAM REID SEXTON is the author, editor, or adapter of more than ten published books, which have been translated into Japanese, Indonesian, and Farsi. His anthology Rap on Rap was acquired by Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, while the Washington Post called his Manga Editions of four Shakespearean tragedies "brilliant." Sexton's fiction, essays, and reviews 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 and smithmag.net.

Sexton has read from his work, appeared on panels, or otherwise performed at the Knitting Factory, Pete's Candy Store, the Cell Theatre, and the Tank Theater. He has taught writing and literature at NYU, Parsons, and Rutgers and lectured at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, the Mohegan Sun, 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, the North American Review, and Shenandoah; on mcsweeneys.com, 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 Writing from the School of the Arts at Columbia University, where he currently works as an administrator in the Writing Division. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Kira and their son Alexander.

To inquire about hiring Adam Reid Sexton to edit your short story, personal essay, or novel, email him at adamrsexton@​gmail.com. To follow him on Facebook, go to Facebook.com/​adamreidsexton