Adam Lewis Schroeder is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 novelist and short story writer.

He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

. In 2001 Raincoast Books

Raincoast Books

Raincoast Books is a Canadian book distribution and wholesale company. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Raincoast was founded by Mark Stanton and Allan MacDougall in 1979 as a consignment wholesaler that shared overhead, warehouse space and staff with the pair's sales agency, Stanton &...

 published his short fiction collection Kingdom of Monkeys which was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award, awarded annually to the best Canadian debut collection. His first novel, Empress of Asia was published in 2006 and was a finalist for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award

The Amazon.ca First Novel Award, formerly the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a literary award given annually to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada. It has been awarded since 1976....

. His most recent novel, In the Fabled East was published in spring 2010 by Douglas & McIntyre

Douglas & McIntyre

Douglas & McIntyre is an independent Canadian publishing company founded in 1971. They are the publishers for such noted authors as Margaret Atwood and Douglas Coupland; poet Lorna Crozier; actress Kim Cattrall; chef John Bishop; and politician Mike Harcourt...

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Adam lives in Penticton with his wife Nicole and their son Jimmy.

Novels

• Empress of Asia (2006) Raincoast Books
  Raincoast Books
  Raincoast Books is a Canadian book distribution and wholesale company. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Raincoast was founded by Mark Stanton and Allan MacDougall in 1979 as a consignment wholesaler that shared overhead, warehouse space and staff with the pair's sales agency, Stanton &...
  
  
• In the Fabled East (2010) Douglas & McIntyre
  Douglas & McIntyre
  Douglas & McIntyre is an independent Canadian publishing company founded in 1971. They are the publishers for such noted authors as Margaret Atwood and Douglas Coupland; poet Lorna Crozier; actress Kim Cattrall; chef John Bishop; and politician Mike Harcourt...
  
  

Short stories

• "House on Fire", Grain, Winter 1997
• "The Country Squire", Zygote, Winter/Spring 1999
• "Scenes from a War" (in 04: Best Canadian Stories, edited by Douglas Glover, 2004, Oberon Press)
• "California", Grain, Summer 2004
• "Beware the Cockeyed Millionaire", Geist (magazine)
  Geist (magazine)
  Geist is Canada's most widely read literary magazine. Geist is published four times a year in Vancouver since 1990. The magazine takes its name from the German word geist, meaning "mind" or "spirit."...
  
  , Spring 2005
• "Halycon Memories of SweaterLodge", fifty3, Spring 2006
• "Something Tells Me I'm Into Something Good", PRISM International, Spring 2007
• "The Nootka Sound", Geist, Spring 2007
• "The Lost Colony", MEET #12, November 2008
• "This is not the End My Friend" (in Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow, edited by Zsuzi Gartner, 2010, Douglas & McIntyre)