Adelle Purdham (she/her) is an educator, parent disability advocate, and author of the memoir-in-essays I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself (Dundurn Press, 2024), which was named a Fall 2024 ‘Most Anticipated’ Memoir & Biography by Indigo and 49^th Shelf. Her prose and poetry appear in literary journals, anthologies, magazines, newspapers and online. Adelle’s essays are finalists in several literary contests, including: The Writer’s Union of Canada’s Short Prose Competition, EVENT Magazine and The Fiddlehead’s Creative Nonfiction Contests. Adelle is a sessional course instructor at Trent University where she teaches creative writing. She lives and writes in her hometown, Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), Ontario.