Biography

     Adam Strassberg was born in Spring Valley, New York in 1968. He is the youngest of three brothers. He grew up in Monsey, New York and his family owned a store in Ramsey, New Jersey which sold live tropical fish, tanks, and aquarium supplies.
     He completed a B.A. degree from Harvard University (1990), an M.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology (1993), and an M.D. degree from Stanford University School of Medicine (1999). He then finished his medical training with an internship and a psychiatric residency at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics (2004). He had an active outpatient private practice in psychiatry, specializing in psychotherapy with psychopharmacology (2004-2019). He was in network with all major insurance companies and dedicated to expanding access to psychiatric treatment. He was involved in mental health advocacy and public education.
     He and his wife raised their two children in Palo Alto, California. For nearly two decades, he helped out the real Santa by volunteering as a community Santa throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He retired from clinical practice in 2019, and sometime later during the COVID pandemic, he and his wife, with two cats and one dog, all moved to Portland, Oregon.
     He has been publishing essays, articles and stories since the 1990’s, however he has focused on writing fiction exclusively since 2021. His stories have been published in Fiction on the Web, Cafe Lit, Total Quality Reading, Please See Me, other online portals, and various print magazines and anthologies. In his writings, he uses the intersection of psychology, religion, mythology, and magical realism to explore the human condition. His novella December on 5C4 debuts on December 1st, 2024, available via Amazon, Barnes & Nobles and other vendors.
     He is a proud geek who loves fantasy, science fiction, comic books, chess, poker, board games, and dungeons and dragons. He also enjoys traveling and adventuring with his wife and family. When not writing, napping, cuddling his wife, petting the cats, or walking the dog, he can be found updating his website at www.adamstrassberg.com