Clint Burnham

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).

References
  1. Ali Riley, "Novel straddles line between poetry, prose". Calgary Herald, December 17, 2005.
  2. Judith Fitzgerald, "Poetry good, bad and ugly". The Globe and Mail, March 7, 1998.
  3. Lee Bacchus, "Angst, anger and anxiety". The Province, August 8, 1999.
  4. Melora Koepke, "Readers connect the dots: Author Clint Burnham deliberately leaves things a little vague". Vancouver Sun, March 25, 2006.
  5. Fiona Hughes, "B.C. Book finalists include Coupland and Vaillant". Vancouver Courier, March 17, 2006.
  6. "Zoe Whittall, Jordan Abel among writers shortlisted for ReLit Awards". CBC Books, May 31, 2018.
  7. "Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, May 9, 2022.


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