Clint Burnham | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) Comox, British Columbia |
| Occupation | Writer and academic |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and academic. [1]
He published the poetry collections Be Labour Reading (1997) [2] and Buddyland (2000), and the short story collection Airborne Photo (1999), [3] before publishing his debut novel Smoke Show in 2005. [4] The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2006. [5]
He was a ReLit Award nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for Pound @ Guantanamo (2017), [6] and in the short fiction category in 2022 for White Lie (2021). [7]
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).