Adam Iscoe is a writer and editor from Austin, Texas. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Texas Monthly and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. Iscoe is an special projects editor at Lapham’s Quarterly. In 2019, he worked as a Visiting Scholar at The University of California, Berkeley. He has taught journalism at Solano State Prison, in Vacaville, California; edited The San Quentin News, an award winning newspaper produced by incarcerated journalists at San Quentin State Prison; and received writing grants from the Judith Lee Stronach Foundation, and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford and Columbia Universities.