A quick biography

Canadian fiction writer Adam Lewis Schroeder 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; 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. Empress will be published in the United States by Thomas Dunne Books in March 2008. Adam lives in Penticton BC with his wife and sons.

If you hanker for audio content

Trevor Cole's terrific Authors Aloud site hosts a 3-minute recording of the much-beloved ballroom scene from Empress of Asia. Go dance around in your bones.

From the archives: Sept. 28, 1972

As immortalized by CBC television, Canadians waited tensely on the edges of their seats the day I was born, then celebrated like crazy. Even John Diefenbaker celebrated like crazy.
Photo by Nicole Handford. I like her a lot.

What? More audio?

Listen to an interview with Holley Rubinsky for Kootenay Co-op Radio's The Writers Show, or an interview with Sheryl MacKay for CBC Radio's North By Northwest, each originally broadcast in March 2007.


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