J. Adams Oaks

J. Adams Oaks is the author of WHY I FIGHT (A Richard Jackson Book, Simon and Schuster), which won both the National Society of Arts and Letters regional competition and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award.

His short fiction has appeared in KneeJerk, River Oak Review, 2D, Sleepwalk, No Touching, The Madison Review and was selected out of over 700 submissions for Chicago Public Radio's "Stories On Stage" series.

Having lived all over (including New Orleans, Madison, Madrid, D.C., and Denver), Oaks finally settled in Chicago, where he is currently a curator and editor for the Serendipity Theatre Collective's 2nd Story storytelling series, and hard at work on his second novel.