Adam Haslett is the author of four works of fiction: You Are Not a Stranger Here, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Union Atlantic, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, Imagine Me Gone, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Mothers and Sons, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His work has been translated into thirty languages, and his journalism on culture and politics have appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others.

He has been awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Winship Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He currently directs the MFA Program at Hunter College.