Judge of our 2023 W. S. Porter Prize
Heather Bell Adams is the author of Maranatha Road, winner of the IPPY Gold Medal for the Southeast, and The Good Luck Stone, winner of the Next Generation Best Historical Novel. Her work, which has been awarded the Doris Betts Fiction Prize, Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award, Carrie McCray Award, and James Still Fiction Prize, appears in the North Carolina Literary Review, Raleigh Review, Still: The Journal, The Thomas Wolfe Review, The Petigru Review, Broad River Review, and elsewhere. She recently served as the 2022 Piedmont Laureate.
