Clint Burnham

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Clint Burnham
Born1962 (age 6061)
Comox, British Columbia
OccupationWriter and academic
NationalityCanadian

Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and academic. [1]

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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).

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As editor

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References

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  2. Fitzgerald, Judith (1998-03-07). "Poetry good, bad and ugly". The Globe and Mail .
  3. Bacchus, Lee (1999-08-08). "Angst, anger and anxiety". The Province .
  4. Koepke, Melora (2006-03-25). "Readers connect the dots: Author Clint Burnham deliberately leaves things a little vague". Vancouver Sun .
  5. Hughes, Fiona (2006-03-17). "B.C. Book finalists include Coupland and Vaillant". Vancouver Courier .
  6. "Zoe Whittall, Jordan Abel among writers shortlisted for ReLit Awards". CBC Books . 2018-04-09. Archived from the original on 2022-05-23. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  7. "Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards". CBC Books . 2022-05-09. Archived from the original on 2022-11-17. Retrieved 2023-04-23.