ADAM SWANSON
Adam Swanson is a writer, editor, artist, and suicidologist. His writing has appeared in Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Khôra, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from the Creative Writing Program at Emerson College, Writing by Writers, and Lambda Literary. More recently, he was invited to serve as the inaugural literary arts fellow at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and has been awarded artist-in-residence positions at Writing by Writers in Colorado and the Sitka Center in Oregon.
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 for several years, he served 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 at Western Kentucky University, Adam earned a master’s degree in public policy at George Mason University. 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.
Adam is now a master of fine arts candidate in creative writing at Emerson College.