Clint Burnham (born 1962 in
Comox,
British Columbia
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) is a
Canadian
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writer and academic.
He published the poetry collections ''Be Labour Reading'' (1997) and ''Buddyland'' (2000), and the short story collection ''Airborne Photo'' (1999), before publishing his debut novel ''Smoke Show'' in 2005. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
The award is named after novelist and short story
A short ...
in 2006.
He was a
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nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for ''Pound @ Guantanamo'' (2017), and in the short fiction category in 2022 for ''White Lie'' (2021).
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
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.
His poems "Rent-a-Marxist" and "An Evening at Home" were anthologized in ''Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets'' (2007).
Publications
As author
* ''Buddyland'' (1994)
* ''The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory'' (1995)
* ''Be Labour Reading'' (1997)
* ''Airborne Photo'' (1999)
* ''Steven McCaffery'' (2003)
* ''Smoke Show'' (2006)
* ''Rental Van'' (2007)
* ''The Benjamin Sonnets'' (2009)
* ''The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing'' (2012)
* ''Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street'' (2016)
* ''Pound @ Guantánamo'' (2016)
* ''Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture'' (2018)
* ''White Lie'' (2021)
As editor
* ''From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom'', co-edited with
Paul Budra (2012)
* ''Lacan and the Environment'', co-edited with
Paul Kingsbury (2021)
References
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1962 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian short story writers
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male novelists
Canadian male poets
Canadian male short story writers
Canadian male non-fiction writers
People from Comox, British Columbia
Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
Poets from Vancouver
Canadian LGBTQ poets
Canadian LGBTQ novelists
Canadian gay writers
Gay poets
Gay novelists
21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
20th-century Canadian LGBTQ people
Novelists from Vancouver