Michael V. Smith is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, performance artist and occasional clown teaching at UBC-Okanagan in BC's Interior.

His video-poems and films have played around the world, in cities such as Milan, Dublin, Turin, London, New York, Toronto, Paris, Geneva, Buenos Aires, SF, LA and Bombay. Smith’s novel, Cumberland (2002, Cormorant Books), was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. His 1st book of poetry, What You Can’t Have (2006, Signature Editions), was short-listed for the ReLit Prize. Most recently, he's published a hybrid book of concrete poems/photographs, Body of Text (2008, BookThug), created with photographer David Ellingsen.

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