Rate My Professor Bridget Adams

Dr. Bridget Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she began her tenure-track position in 2023. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University (2018–2023), an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University (2016–2018), and a B.A. in English from the State University of New York at Geneseo (2007–2011). Prior to joining SFASU, Adams served as an Instructor of Record at Florida State University from 2018 to 2023, teaching courses including Freshman Composition, Fiction Technique, Kudzu Review, Research, Genre, and Context, and Record, Article & Essay. At Bowling Green State University (2016–2018), she taught Creative Writing Workshop and Rhetoric and Composition. She also worked as a Teaching Assistant at SUNY Geneseo in 2010, leading a Fiction Workshop. At SFASU, her courses include Intermediate Fiction Workshop, Introduction to Creative Writing, and Rhetoric and Composition.

Adams's creative publications feature short fiction in prominent literary journals: "Terrible Personality" (forthcoming, The Mississippi Review, 2023), "Mushroom Boys" (Willow Springs Review, 2020), "The Moon is a Stone" (Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2019), "Nice Girls" (The Sun Magazine, 2018), "In Which You Fly Home to Your Brother’s Funeral" (Hobart, 2018), "Permanent Teeth" (SmokeLong Quarterly, 2017), and "The Boa Constrictor" (The Susquehanna Review, 2008). She has received awards including the PEN America Emergency Artist Grant (2020), the Devine Fellowship in Fiction (2018), and the Winifred O. Stone Award (2016), along with nominations for the AWP Intro Journals Award and the BGSU Distinguished Thesis Award. Adams has held key roles such as Fiction Editor for Mid-American Review (2017–2018), Faculty Advisor to Florida State University’s The Kudzu Review (2022–2023), and Creative Writing Program Assistant at Florida State University (2019–2023), where she managed departmental operations, social media, and events like the Jerome Stern Reading Series. She has served on graduate thesis committees at SFASU, participated as a Faculty Fellow in the university's Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows Program (2025), contributed as a FSU Festival of the Arts artist (2022), and hosted story slams at Midtown Reader. Adams is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.