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Adelle Purdham (she/her) is an educator, parent disability advocate, and the author of the memoir-in-essays, I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself (Dundurn Press, 2024). Adelle’s essays are finalists in several creative nonfiction contests, and her prose and poetry appear in literary journals, anthologies, magazines, newspapers and online. Adelle lives in her hometown of Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), Ontario, and teaches creative writing at Trent University-Durham.

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“Waiting for Elyse to reach a developmental milestone is like seven years of waiting for the sun to emerge. When the moment comes, the effect is a ray of sunshine in an otherwise grey world. The golden hour is pure celebration, light.”
― Adelle Purdham, I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself

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