Heather Bell Adams is the author of two novels, Maranatha Road (West Virginia University Press 2017) and The Good Luck Stone (Haywire Books 2020) and a novella, Starring Marilyn Monroe as Herself (forthcoming from Regal House Publishing). Maranatha Road won the gold medal for the Southeast region in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was selected for Deep South Magazine’s Fall/Winter Reading List. The Good Luck Stone appeared on Summer Reading Lists for Deep South Magazine, Writer’s Bone, The Big Other and Buzz Feed and won Best Historical Novel post-1900 in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Award, Heather has won the Doris Betts Fiction Prize, Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award, Carrie McCray Literary Award, and James Still Fiction Prize. Her work appears in the North Carolina Literary Review, Still: The Journal, Parentheses, Atticus Review, The Thomas Wolfe Review, Raleigh Review, Reckon Review, The Petigru Review, Pembroke Magazine, Broad River Review, and elsewhere.
Originally from Hendersonville, North Carolina, Heather graduated from Duke University and Duke University School of Law and now lives in Raleigh where she works as a lawyer. She served as North Carolina’s 2022 Piedmont Laureate and South Carolina’s 2023 Pat Conroy Writer-in-Residence. She is a member of the North Carolina Writers Network Board of Trustees.
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Read one of Heather’s recent short stories:
When Marilyn Monroe’s Psychotherapist Asks About Her Childhood, failbetter, June 27, 2024
