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Adrian Shirk

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Adrian Shirk is the author of HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH (Counterpoint, 2022), a personal odyssey of American utopian experiments, and AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY (Counterpoint, 2017), a hybrid-memoir exploring American women prophets and mystics, named an NPR ‘Best Book’ of 2017. Shirk was raised in Portland, Oregon, and has since lived in New York and Wyoming. She’s a frequent contributor to Catapult, and her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Lit Hub, and Atlas Obscura, among others.  She teaches in Pratt Institute’s BFA Creative Writing Program and is an ensemble member of The Party Theater. She lives at The Mutual Aid Society in the Catskill mountains.

say hi:
adrian.shirk@gmail.com

represented by:
W. Ralph Eubanks, Martha Kaplan Agency
ralph@wralpheubanks.com

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