Adrian Shirk is the author of Heaven is a Place on Earth (Counterpoint, 2022) and And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy (Counterpoint, 2017), named an NPR ‘Best Book’ of 2017 and a New Yorker ‘Briefly Noted’. Shirk was raised in Portland, Oregon, and has since lived in New York and Wyoming. She was formerly a columnist at Catapult, and her essays frequently appeared in The Atlantic, among others. She teaches in Pratt Institute’s BFA Creative Writing Program, and lives in the Catskill mountains.
