Biography

Sylvia Adams is an Ottawa novelist and poet whose publications include the novel This Weather of Hangmen, the award-winning poetry chapbook Mondrian's Elephant, and the poetry collection, Sleeping on the Moon.

Her work has been published in journals and anthologies in Canada and the United States. She was the recipient of Arc Magazine's 2005 Diana Brebner Poetry Award. Sleeping on the Moon was the runner-up to Scott-Lampman award and poems from the collection were short-listed for the 2005 Malahat Long Poem Award. She is a three-time winner of the Canadian Authors Association National Capital Region poetry competition, has won their non-fiction contest and in 1998 won the Seeds Magazine poetry contest.

An instructor/facilitator for two Ottawa poetry groups, she edits their chapbook anthologies and in January-February 2007 taught a poetry workshop in Chile. She has served as poetry editor for The Ottawa Citizen and on the board of directors for the Latin American publication, Alter Vox. Some of her poetry has been translated into Spanish.

She can be reached by email at sylviaadams@rogers.com.