Clint Burnham

{{Short description|Canadian writer and academic}}

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| name = Clint Burnham

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1962}}

| birth_place = Comox, British Columbia

| nationality = Canadian

| occupation = Writer and academic

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Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and academic.{{Cite news |last=Riley |first=Ali |date=2005-12-17 |title=Novel straddles line between poetry, prose |work=Calgary Herald}}

He published the poetry collections Be Labour Reading (1997){{Cite news |last=Fitzgerald |first=Judith |author-link=Judith Fitzgerald |date=1998-03-07 |title=Poetry good, bad and ugly |work=The Globe and Mail}} and Buddyland (2000), and the short story collection Airborne Photo (1999),{{Cite news |last=Bacchus |first=Lee |date=1999-08-08 |title=Angst, anger and anxiety |work=The Province}} before publishing his debut novel Smoke Show in 2005.{{Cite news |last=Koepke |first=Melora |date=2006-03-25 |title=Readers connect the dots: Author Clint Burnham deliberately leaves things a little vague |work=Vancouver Sun}} The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2006.{{Cite news |last=Hughes |first=Fiona |date=2006-03-17 |title=B.C. Book finalists include Coupland and Vaillant |work=Vancouver Courier}}

He was a ReLit Award nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for Pound @ Guantanamo (2017),{{Cite web |date=2018-04-09 |title=Zoe Whittall, Jordan Abel among writers shortlisted for ReLit Awards |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/zoe-whittall-jordan-abel-among-writers-shortlisted-for-relit-awards-1.4611186 |access-date=2023-04-23 |website=CBC Books |archive-date=2022-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523022223/https://www.cbc.ca/books/zoe-whittall-jordan-abel-among-writers-shortlisted-for-relit-awards-1.4611186 |url-status=live }} and in the short fiction category in 2022 for White Lie (2021).{{Cite web |date=2022-05-09 |title=Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/short-fiction-from-norma-dunning-david-huebert-alix-ohlin-among-works-shortlisted-for-2022-relit-awards-1.6446211 |access-date=2023-04-23 |website=CBC Books |archive-date=2022-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117232024/https://www.cbc.ca/books/short-fiction-from-norma-dunning-david-huebert-alix-ohlin-among-works-shortlisted-for-2022-relit-awards-1.6446211 |url-status=live }}

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).