Clint Burnham

Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and academic.

He published the poetry collections ''Be Labour Reading'' (1997) and ''Buddyland'' (2000), and the short story collection ''Airborne Photo'' (1999), before publishing his debut novel ''Smoke Show'' in 2005. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2006.

He was a ReLit Award nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for ''Pound @ Guantanamo'' (2017), and in the short fiction category in 2022 for ''White Lie'' (2021).

He has also published the poetry collections ''Rental Van'' (2007) and ''The Benjamin Sonnets'' (2009), and numerous academic non-fiction works on literature, art and architecture. He is a professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

His poems "Rent-a-Marxist" and "An Evening at Home" were anthologized in ''Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets'' (2007). Provided by Wikipedia