Library Interim Dean

Adam Braver, University Library Program Director and Associate Professor of Creative Writing, will serve as Interim Dean of University Library Services while the university conducts a national search for the next Dean of Library Services. 

Braver is an accomplished author and also serves as the university representative to Scholars at Risk. He is the author of Mr. Lincoln’s Wars, Divine Sarah, Crows Over the Wheatfield, November 22, 1963, Misfit, The Disappeared, and Rejoice the Head of Paul McCartney. His books have been selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers program, Border’s Original Voices series, the IndieNext list, and twice for the Book Sense list; as well as having been translated into Italian, Japanese, Turkish, and French. His work has appeared in journals such as Daedalus, Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Water-Stone Review, Harvard Review, Tin House, West Branch, The Normal School, and Post Road. 

Braver also edits the Broken Silence Series for the University of New Orleans Press, a book series that tells the firsthand accounts of political dissidents. In addition, he is the Associate Director and a faculty member at the NY State Summer Writers Institute.