ABOUT A.D. METCALFE
1970s URBAN CRIME & COMING-OF-AGE NOVELIST
A.D. Metcalfe is a native New Yorker, coming of age in the 70s, when the city was suffering severe urban blight. As a latchkey kid with little supervision, she was entrenched in the bar scene, hanging out with addicts, dealers and criminals by the time she was fifteen.
Witnessing the traps of addiction befalling many of her peers, she eventually pulled herself from a similar fate and left the city. It is those struggles and experiences that inspire much of her writing.
Metcalfe currently lives on a small farm on Cape Cod, where she is Vice President of the Cape Cod Writers Center and a member of Grub Street. She is also a host and co-producer for Books and the World, the longest-running literary interview program in the country.
Metcalfe has had several short pieces featured in various publications, and her children’s book, Mousebound, was published under the pen name, Leslie Ann George. Her award-winning debut novel, Street, the first in a series, was released in December of 2023.
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