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About Maria

Baltimore City

Maria Adelmann is the author of GIRLS OF A CERTAIN AGE (Feb 2021, Little, Brown), a "fearless, darkly playful debut exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness." Her debut novel HOW TO BE EATEN (Feb 2022, Little, Brown) reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. She has previously been a finalist for the Baker Artist Award in Literary Arts, won an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, was selected for an Art Omi: Writers residency in 2020.

Her short stories have… more

The Wayside (novella)

"The Wayside" is a novella-length coming-of-age story, forthcoming in EPOCH later this year.
  • Adelmann The Wayside.pdf
    "We had a war going on between ANDS and BUTS, or, at least, I had a war going on between ANDS and BUTS. James believed BUT was a negative word that subtracted positive meaning from the first part of the sentence, and therefore he rarely used it. He would say things like, 'You’re doing a great job entering data into the computer AND when you file my papers I can’t seem to find them.' To counter his irrational elimination of BUT, I used it as frequently as possible in places where it was completely unnecessary: 'I really like oranges,' I’d say during lunch break, 'BUT I really like apples.'"