I am an author, artist, graduate student, and co-founder/co-director of dis assembly: neurodivergent arts collective.

I am non-speaking and use an iPad text-to-speech application to communicate. I have contributed to academic journals and am a regular public speaker at universities and conferences. My interest is in neurodiverse ways of studying and collaborating, noting that mutual support is essential to access and creation.

I released two books of poetry in 2019 with Unrestricted Interest: There is Too Much Music in my Ears and In Way of Music Water Answers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism.

My first book, The Wanting Way, was released in 2022 with Milkweed Editions.

My second book, Open Book in Ways of Water, was released in 2023 with Punctum Books.

  • “I am the open feeler who feels too much”

  • "Wolfond's written poetry invites serious study...Wolfond is a poet of ecoproprioception...It's all languaging 'an event in which the body and the atmosphere are related."

    George Quasha from paper “Languaging Body by Field Ecoproprioception”

  • "Like water I am eager / Like water I am thinking / Like water I always move"

    Excerpt from In Way of Music Water Answers Toward Questions Other Than What is Autism

  • "I think that non-speakers like me dance with language."

    From NPR.org article on The Wanting Way

  • are the open way of thinking / that use the patterns of the way / I motion with language

    From the poem “Tall Ideas”

NEWS + EVENTS

“What if My Body is a Beacon for the World?” Film Exhibition at Koffler Arts, toronto
Experience the exhibition HERE


Poetry Foundation: ‘Between’
Online publication purchase HERE


National Autism Conference: A Conversation with Autistic Non-Speakers August 2024
WATCH HERE


“Thinking With Sticks”: Autistic Life Narratives and their Material Components - Dr. Sarinah O’Donoghue
READ HERE


Fieldnotes: the destructive method: Issue 6
Spring 2024
ORDER HERE


Open Book in Ways of Water - Punctum Books
ORDER HERE


Recipient of a Toronto Arts Council Writing

Cover of Adam's book The Wanting Way

THE WANTING WAY

"It is here where we are taught to understand multiple knowledges and registers in the choir of what’s possible. These are extraordinary poems.”
— OLIVER DE LA PAZ

A new book of poems with Milkweed Editions to be released in November 2022.

READ MORE about The Wanting Way.

Whenever We Feel Like It presents a reading and discussion featuring poets Chris Martin and Adam Wolfond. Chris is also the author of the nonfiction book, May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future about his work to help autistic students, like Adam, find their voices. Please join us for their performance and audience-led discussion with the writers about the potential of writing and the lessons we might learn writing with and alongside one another.

Co-sponsored by: the Critical Writing Program
Hosted by: Michelle Taransky

The full video is 1:09:36 and can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2qFFLhH1rU