Hi, I’m Adam Scheffler.

I’m the author of two books of poems: Heartworm, which won the 2021 Moon City Press Prize, and A Dog’s Life, which won the 2016 Jacar Press Book Contest. I’m also the author of a book of literary criticism: “So This/ Is What It Feels Like”: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright (LSU Press, forthcoming Spring 2026).

I grew up in Berkeley, California, received my MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and my PhD in English from Harvard. I am an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wichita State University and a member of their MFA Faculty in Poetry.

Drop me a line at scheffl@gmail.com or adam.scheffler@wichita.edu.