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

  • “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

A Multiversal Rally: On Neurodivergence and Poetics
February 6 - 9 2024
Humanities Commons: University of Richmond

Defiça Portraits - 4th Symposium ‘Art and Access: Between Technique and Aesthetics’
Friday September 22, 2023
10 am - 6 pm (EST)


Open Book in Ways of Water - Punctum Books
ORDER HERE

Tilted Thinking, Wanting Ways, and Our Neurodiverse Future with Imane Boukaila, Chris Martin, and Adam Wolfond
Wednesday May 17, 2023
8:00 pm (EST)
In-person: St. Mark’s Church, New York City
TICKETS HERE
LIVESTREAM

The Art of Neurodiversity: Learning from Neurodivergent Creativity
Friday April 14, 2023
9:00 am - 4:30 pm (EST)
Virtual: MORE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION

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