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Adam McOmber is the author of My House Gathers Desires (BOA Editions, Fall 2017), The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012), and This New & Poisonous Air (BOA Editions, 2011), from which he had stories nominated for two 2012 Pushcart Prizes. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, and Fairy Tale Review. He was the longtime managing and associate editor for the literary magazine Hotel America at Columbia College Chicago before moving to Los Angeles where he now teaches at Loyola Marymount University. For more information about Adam McOmber, please visit adammcomber.com.

Books by Adam McOmber

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Jennie Malboeuf

Jennie Malboeuf is the author of jump the gun (BOA Editions, 2025), and God had a body, awarded the 2019 Blue Light Books Prize…

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Spring Book Bundle

Welcome Spring Book Bundlers! With this one-time purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's spring season. This Spring Book Bundle…

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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Gravity Changes

Winner of the BOA SHORT FICTION PRIZE Recommended in The Washington Post’s 2017 SUMMER BOOK LIST  Gravity Changes is a collection of fantastical, off-beat stories that view the…

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Bone Symphony

Michelle Phương Hồ’s Bone Symphony mines the wreckage of colonialism and imperialist warfare in Vietnam and attempts to reassemble the bones. Told in three movements…

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The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone

The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone is a Midwestern mythology that celebrates facts, fiction,…

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To Get Here

In To Get Here, Wendy Mnookin takes us into a family transformed by the unexpected–a child in danger. Using shifting chronology and different voices,…

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Postcards from the Interior

Postcards from the Interior is a collection of postcard poems written from different geographical locations and varied states of heart and mind. The first section,…

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I Don't Believe in Ghosts

The poems in I Don’t Believe in Ghosts come from Meduza, a collection Zeqo wrote roughly between 1970-1974, that challenged some of the core…

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