Adam Swanson is a writer, editor, and suicidologist. His work has appeared in Khôra, Oprah Daily, The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Writing by Writers, Lambda Literary, and the Creative Writing Program at Emerson College. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he was recently named the inaugural literary arts fellow at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
Adam is a project director at EDC.org, a global nonprofit dedicated to health and education, where he serves as the senior technical assistance and state partnerships advisor for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center. He is a former coach for the Equity-Grounded Leadership Fellows Program at The College for Behavioral Health Leadership, and his previous professional roles include positions with the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Mental Health America, and the United States Senate.
He holds a Master of Public Policy from George Mason University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College. He also completed the LGBT Health Policy and Practice Graduate Certificate Program at The George Washington University, where he received the AIDS Healthcare Foundation Student Award. His first book is forthcoming.