Sylvia Adams is the author of a novel, This Weather of Hangmen, the award-winning chapbook, Mondrian’s Elephant, and a poetry collection, Sleeping on the Moon, which was runner-up for the Scott-Lampman Award. Her children’s book, Dinner at the Dog Pound, was published in 2009. She is an editor, book reviewer and writing instructor and as ADAR Press has published poetry chapbooks for groups she facilitates. Her poem Water won Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2005 Diana Brebner Award. 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. Her latest poetry collection Whistle for Jellyfish was published by BookLand Press in 2011.