Colin Smith, once of Vancouver's Kootenay School of Writing, lives now in Treaty 1 Winnipeg, occupied Anishinaabe akiing. He studied creative writing at York University and graduated in 1983 with a BFA. He moved to Vancouver in 1987 and immediately became part of Kootenay School of Writing milieu, first as a student and then as a collective member. He is the author of Multiple Poses (Tsunami Editions, 1997), 8 x 8 x 7 (KRUPSKAYA, 2008), and Multiple Bippies (CUE Books, 2014). With Ted Landrum, Steven Ross Smith, and Jennifer Still, he is part of Eccentric Crops, a collaborative poem-making group. Their first chapbook, Table for Four, is forthcoming with JackPine Press.
