Reading at the Katherine Anne Porter House

Adam Johnson is Associate Professor of English at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, Playboy, GQ, Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, The New York Times and Best American Short Stories. He is the author of Emporium, a story collection, and Parasites Like Us, a novel. Johnson has received a Whiting Writers Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His fiction has been translated into twenty-three languages. His novel The Orphan Master's Son won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize.