Adrian Shirk is an essayist and memoirist. Adrian wrote “And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy,” and "Heaven is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia". She is a frequent contributor to Catapult, and her essays have appeared in The Atlantic and Atlas Obscura, among other publications. Currently, she teaches in Pratt Institute’s BFA creative writing program and lives at the Mutual Aid Society in the Catskill Mountains.
