Kevan ‘Scruffmouth’ Cameron is a writer, poet and performer based out of the concrete rainforest of the lower mainland. He is a 2-time veteran of the Vancouver Poetry Slam team (‘07, ‘08) and the host of the monthly Art of Words Poetry Jam series. This SFU alumnus has been published in We Have A Voice: African & Caribbean Student Writing and Blood Ink: A University of Alberta Literary Journal. As a performer, Scruffmouth has featured as a spoken poet in film and television, including Fallen (2007, ABC Family); Love Happens (2008, Universal) and the independent short film Food for Thought (2008, Black Sunrise Pictures). Kevan Cameron is currently the creative director for the Black Dot Roots & Culture Collective, a group of artists and professionals dedicated to the education, creation and celebration of the Black experience at home and abroad through the art of storytelling and the act of connecting the dots of the community. He has self-published 3 chapbooks: The Seventh Sense (2007), P.A.I.D. (2008), and Choose Your Revolution (2008). His new chapbook, New Word Order (2010) is a literary manifesto inspired by dub poetry, hip-hop and “the message is the music.”

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