Brock Adams is the award-winning author of the short-story collection Gulf and the novel Ember, which won the South Carolina First Novel Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Be...view moreBrock Adams is the award-winning author of the short-story collection Gulf and the novel Ember, which won the South Carolina First Novel Prize. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, The Sewanee Review, Bacopa Literary Review, and several other journals. He teaches English and creative writing at USC Upstate and lives with his wife and daughter in Spartanburg, South Carolina.view less