Adam Levin

I’m a novelist and short story writer who’s lived in and around Chicago for most of his life. My fiction engages with a range of subjects including Judaism, robots, violence, and art. Prior to getting my MFA, I spent a couple of years studying and practicing psychotherapy. During that time, I became fascinated with Radical Behaviorism. That fascination informs much of my approach to thinking about fiction and the ways in which it’s read.

I’m the author the novels The Instructions, Bubblegum, and Mount Chicago, as well the story collection, Hot Pink. My fiction has appeared in the “The New Yorker,” “McSweeney’s,” “Tin House,” and elsewhere. I’ve been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Winner, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a National Jewish Book Award finalist.

Over the years, I’ve advised theses and taught fiction workshops, seminars, and forms courses to graduate and undergraduate students at a wide variety of creative writing programs. Several students with whom I’ve worked have gone on to publish their books with major and independent presses, and their stories in journals and national magazines. 

Books

• Mount Chicago, Doubleday, 2022
• Bubblegum, Doubleday, 2020
• Hot Pink, McSweeney’s Books, 2012
• The Instructions, McSweeney’s Books, 2010

In Periodicals & Anthologies 

• “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” The New Yorker, 2025
• “Kid Positive,” The New Yorker, 2020