ADAM SWANSON
Adam Swanson is a suicide prevention policy advocate, writer, and editor. His nonfiction work has been published in Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Khôra, The Rumpus, Lambda Literary Review, and elsewhere. He’s received writing fellowships from the Creative Writing Program at Emerson College, Writing by Writers, and Lambda Literary. In 2022, his poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He’s been awarded artist-in-residence positions at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon and Writing by Writers in Colorado. Adam was recently named as the Sitka Center’s inaugural literary arts fellow.
Adam is the senior state partnerships manager with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at EDC, a global nonprofit dedicated to health, education, and economic opportunity initiatives. He is also a coach for the Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellow Program at The College for Behavioral Health Leadership, and he served for several years on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline’s Lived Experience Advisory Committee. His previous professional roles include positions at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Mental Health America, and the United States Senate.
After studying sociology, women’s studies, and sexuality studies at Western Kentucky University, Adam earned a master’s degree in public policy at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. In 2018, he completed the LGBT Health Policy and Practice Graduate Certificate Program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he won the AIDS Healthcare Foundation student award. He is now a master of fine arts candidate in creative writing at Emerson College.