Pip Adam is the author of four novels: Audition (2023), Nothing to See (2020), which was shortlisted for the Acorn Prize for Fiction, The New Animals (2017), which won the Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction, and I'm Working on a Building (2013); and the short story collection Everything We Hoped For (2010), which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction in 2011.

Pip's work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. In 2012 she received an Arts Foundation of New Zealand New Generation Award.

Pip has facilitated writing workshops in universities and other settings, including with people affected by crime in prisons and communities. She makes the Better off Read podcast, where she talks with authors about writing and reading.