Ian Adam is a prairie native, from Cabri, Saskatchewan, and later Ponoka, Alberta. He received a B.A. Honours from the University of Alberta in 1955, and did post-graduate study at the University of London. He taught at the University of Calgary, specializing in Victorian and later Commonwealth and Western Canadian literature and poetry. He was an associate editor of Edge 1964-1969, edited Ariel 1980-1990, and was on the executive of the Writers' Guild of Alberta 1983-1984. Now he is a full time writer.

Selected Publications
Encounter. (Ladysmith, 1973).
Songs from the Star Motel. (Red Deer College Press, 1987).

Selected Anthologies
Draft. (Turnstone, 1981).
Glass Canyons. Editor. (NeWest, 1985).
Ride off Any Horizon II. (NeWest, 1987).
The Wascana Poetry Anthology. (Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1996).

Books in Print
Adam, Ian
The Nomadic Marchesa (Touchwood Press, 2003). ISBN: 0-9687861-3-8, $15.00.
Encounter. (Ladysmith, 1973). ISBN 0-919556-19-1.
Songs from the Star Motel. (Red Deer College Press, 1987). ISBN 0-8995-033-4.

Ian Adam 2015 Urbana Rd. N.W. Calgary AB T2N 4C1 (403) 282-7190
iwadam@acs.ucalgary.ca