Gail Galloway AdamsGAIL GALLOWAY ADAMS is the author of The Purchase of Order, which received the 1987 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is a professor emeritus at West Virginia University, where she taught creative writing for over twenty years. Adms served as fiction editor for Arts and Letters: A Literary Journal and for the Potomac Review. She has been a reader/judge for several short fiction awards series. She has recently taught at Kenyon College, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and the Wild Acres Writers Workshop. She also works privately as a short story and novel editorial consultant and lives in Tallahassee, Florida. Read More Read Less