About

James McAdams grew up in Philadelphia and resides in St. Petersburg, FL, where he teaches English, literature, creative writing, and media studies (and dodges hurricanes). His stories, poems, academic articles, and CNF essays have appeared in approximately one hundred venues and garnered multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize. James teaches in the English & Rhetoric department at Purdue Global University; previously, he has taught at Lehigh University, the University of South Florida, Ringling College of Art + Design, and Southern New Hampshire University. In 2017, he received his Ph.D. from Lehigh University upon completing his dissertation entitled ” ‘A Psychiatrist is the God of our Age: ‘ Contemporary American Fiction and the Postmodern Critique of Psychiatry.”

The Florida Shuffle, his recently completed novel about sober home fraud and the opioid epidemic, is represented by Trident Media Group in NYC. His first short story collection, Ambushing the Void, was published by Frayed Edge Press in 2020. He was Flash Fiction editor at Barren Magazine from 2020-2023. In his free time, he’s expanding his dissertation into a book-length project about psychiatry and addictionology and teaching at community literary and writing events throughout Tampa Bay. He can be reached at james@jamesmcadams.org. Ominem unius libri timeo.