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 short story collection, Imagine Me Happy (forthcoming July 2027 Regal House). 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.
Heather has won the Doris Betts Fiction Prize, Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award, Carrie McCray Literary Award, James Still Fiction Prize, and other awards. Her work appears in New Letters, North Carolina Literary Review, Still: The Journal, The Thomas Wolfe Review, Porchlight, Cold Mountain Review, Orange Blossom Review, Reckon Review, Broad River Review, and elsewhere.
Originally from Hendersonville, North Carolina, Heather works as a business litigator in Raleigh. She served as North Carolina’s 2022 Piedmont Laureate and South Carolina’s 2023 Pat Conroy Writer-in-Residence. She is a trustee of Raleigh Review and the North Carolina Writers Network.
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