Paul Dow Adams is pursuing an MFA at Texas State University, and is a fiction editor for Southwestern American Literature and contributing editor for Texas Books in Review. He's had the honor of participating in workshops with many excellent authors, including Josip Novakovich, Dean Young, Owen Egerton, Dawn Raffel, Michael C. White, Patricia Henley, Jim Harms, Mark Brazaitis, Ben Doyle, Cecily Sailer, and Tatiana Ryckman.
While at Texas State, he has the privilege of working with such writers as Tim O'Brien, Tom Grimes, Doug Dorst, Debra Monroe and Jennifer duBois. Paul has been a book reviewer for The Austin Review, a student of Classics (reads Latin at the level of a 19th Century Briish teen) and a CELTA certified ESL instructor.
He works with Freehand Arts Project, teaching creative writing to inmates in the Travis County correctional system. He is interested in cultures in decline, especially Rome in Late Antiquity and the 17-19th century Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires.