Adam Klein (writer)

Adam Klein
Born	1962 Coral Gables, Florida
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, essayist, musician
Alma mater	San Francisco State University, The New School

Adam Klein (born 1962) is an American writer and musician. He currently divides his time between New York, San Francisco, and India.

Klein was born in 1962 in Coral Gables, Florida. He left high school in Miami with a GED and attended Miami Dade Community College, where he studied fashion and poetry. He spent one year as an undergraduate at the University of Iowa, studying poetry with Marvin Bell. He then left school to live briefly in Chicago and Boston. With friends from work in Boston, he started the first incarnation of the band The Size Queens. Eventually, he moved to San Francisco, where he spent many years in the 1980s as a performer in the local club scene.

Klein graduated from San Francisco State University, where he studied with Bob Glück and Molly Giles, with an MA in creative writing. He later earned an MFA in creative writing from The New School, where he worked with Robert Polito, Lynne Tillman, Honor Moore, Sigrid Nunez, and Patrick McGrath. His first book, The Medicine Burns, is a collection of short stories that was nominated for a Lambda Book Award. Selections from the collection appear in Best American Gay Fiction, edited by Brian Bouldrey, and Men on Men 5, edited by David Bergman. With poet Thomas Avena, Klein cowrote the artist monograph Jerome: After the Pageant about mixed-media artist Jerome Caja. Klein is also the author of the novel Tiny Ladies. An excerpt of Tiny Ladies appears in the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person, edited by Michelle Tea and Clint Catalyst. The Medicine Burns and Tiny Ladies are now part of Dzanc Books' rEprint series.

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