Nina Adel [she, her] is the recipient of a 2023 Yaddo Artist Residency. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. Winner of the Bellevue Literary Review’s 2020 Buckvar Prize for her lyric essay “Refugere,“ Nina’s work has been published in Flash Fiction Magazine, Moria, Breath and Shadow, matchbook, and many other publications. She has received recognition in such diverse corners of the arts world as Glimmer Train, The Kerrville Music Festival, and Wolf Trap, among others. She is a Berklee-trained musician, craftsperson (owner of Blue Salamander Arts and Letters), and English professor, and is the editor of the recent anthology A Lighthouse, a collection of immigrant voices from the Nashville-based Immigrants Write program which she directs. She lives in Nashville alongside her children. Social media: @writethinkspeak; ninaadel.com
