Tracie Adams
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Tracie Adams, a retired educator and playwright, lives on a farm in rural Virginia with her husband and two writing buddies who look a lot like dachshunds. Her debut book, Our Lives in Pieces, is a collection of essays with the universal theme of finding beauty in brokenness. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her flash essays and stories are featured online and in print editions of over seventy literary journals and anthologies, including Cleaver Magazine, Fictive Dream, SoFloPoJo, BULL, Epistemic Lit, and others. She writes to find meaning in the suffering and the joy of the human experience. Recurring topics in her writing are addiction, motherhood, adoption, grief, and family. While most of her work is not explicitly Christian in content, her faith in Jesus is the gold thread woven through every word she writes. She considers her greatest accomplishment to be raising four children who have taught her the most valuable lessons in life. When she is not writing or reading, she can be found birdwatching, enjoying a playlist of 80’s music on her porch, or being chased by five short people who call her Glamma.
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Not Finished Yet: Essays on the Rhythmic Beauty of a Life in Flux
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Memoir, Essay Collection
In Not Finished Yet: Essays on the Rhythmic Beauty of a Life in Flux, Tracie Adams offers a shimmering exploration of change—not as something to survive, but as the very pulse of a meaningful life. Like the jellyfish that drifts through these pages, tender yet tenacious, she reminds us that to be alive is to be unfinished. These essays reach into the quiet places we hide our shame, our longing to belong, our need to break apart and begin again. From a childhood encounter with loss that never quite settles to moments of reckless hope, bruised love, and fragile forgiveness, the author reveals that it is not perfection or certainty that makes a life beautiful, but the courage to remain fluid when the world tries to harden us into something small. Each essay explores the quiet truth that we are never one thing for long—parents, children, lovers, loners—forever drifting toward another version of ourselves. Here is a story of coming undone and re-forming, of finding wonder in our own soft edges and unexpected strength in our scars. It’s an invitation to forgive ourselves, to see each loss and reinvention not as failure but as proof of life’s wild, regenerative rhythm. In a voice that is intimate, wise, and deeply human, Adams invites us to see our own journeys reflected in the ever-shifting tides of her stories. For anyone who has ever felt out of place in their own skin, who knows the sting of shame and the sweetness of starting over, this book is a gentle reminder that transformation isn’t a detour—it’s the path itself. 
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Our Lives in Pieces, A Collection of Flash Memoir Essays
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Memoir
"Our Lives in Pieces" is a heartfelt exploration of the human experience, capturing the essence of love, loss, and resilience. Tracie Adams' essays invite readers to reflect on their own lives, reminding us that even in our brokenness, we can find beauty and hope. The collection serves as a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of storytelling to heal and connect us all. 
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