Michèle Adams lives in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood of Vancouver and has an across-the-spectrum interest in writing. Her stories have been published (Geist, Fiddlehead, Event, Canadian Fiction), dramatized on CBC Radio, and performed at arts festivals (Banff, Harrison, etc.). In 2005 she won The Fiddlehead short fiction prize and her story collection Bright Objects of Desire was recently published by Biblioasis. She is also active as a screenwriter, having written three feature scripts — Lady S (adapted from Jane Austen's first novel Lady Susan), Sex Lives of the Saints, and The Kindest Thing — and numerous shorts. Sex Lives... is now in development with Buffalo Gal Pictures (Saddest Music in the World). Her comic novel Grim Sausages was short-listed for the Metcalf-Rooke Award in 2006. In addition to writing, Michèle has an ongoing commitment to teaching and editing. She has taught English Literature, Creative Writing, and Screenwriting at UBC, VCC, OLA, and VFS, is currently teaching at SFU, serves as a script analyst for Praxis and is on the Harold Greenberg, Praxis, and Telefilm lists of story editors.
