Kim Adrian

Kim Adrian is the author of two books of lyric criticism: Dear Knausgaard (described by James Wood, literary critic for The New Yorker, as “a delight from start to finish”); and Sock (part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series). She wrote the critically acclaimed memoir The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, which was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist. Other work includes the libretto for the opera The Strange Child (music by Julia Werntz), and the anthology of lyric essays called The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, which she edited and which a review in The Millions praised as providing “a sense of hope about literature and its capacity for evolution and change.”