 Photo by Lincoln Clarkes |
Adam Lewis Schroeder, B.F.A., M.F.A. |
Adam Lewis Schroeder grew up in Vernon BC and completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in 1999. He has since traveled widely and published stories in more than a dozen journals and anthologies. In 2001 his short fiction collection Kingdom of Monkeys was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award as the year's best first collection by an English Canadian. His novel Empress of Asia was published by Raincoast in 2006 and Thomas Dunne in the US in 2008; a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, it was also selected by the Globe & Mail as one of the best books of the year. Douglas & McIntyre will publish a new novel, In the Fabled East, in Spring 2010. In addition, Adam has been a columnist for CBC Radio One since 2008. He lives in Penticton BC with his wife and kids.
Recent work includes the story "The Man Upstairs" in the Winter 2009 Event magazine and the installation "The Kamloops Arrow," with Shauna Oddleifson, for the March 2009 Reading Kamloops outreach exhibition project.
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8/15/2011 2:58:49 PM
