Michael V. Smith

{{Short description|Canadian novelist, poet and filmmaker}}

{{other people|Michael Smith}}

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| birth_place = Cornwall, Ontario, Canada

| occupation = Writer

| period = 2000s-present

| nationality = Canadian

| notableworks = Cumberland, Progress

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| awards = 2007 Dayne Ogilvie Prize

| website = {{URL|http://www.michaelvsmith.com/}}

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Michael V. Smith is a Canadian novelist, poet and filmmaker, originally from Cornwall, Ontario[http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=4&STORY_ID=3085&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=2 "Community Hero of the Year: Three introductions to Michael V Smith] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117093744/http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=4&STORY_ID=3085&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=2 |date=2013-01-17 }}. Xtra! West, May 23, 2007. and now living in Kelowna, British Columbia. His debut novel, Cumberland, was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2002. He has also been a nominee for the Journey Prize and the inaugural winner of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, and has published two books of poetry, What You Can't Have and Body of Text, and a memoir, My Body Is Yours.[http://www.dailyxtra.com/canada/arts-and-entertainment/michael-v-smith%E2%80%99s-memoir-body-shame-and-gay-masculinity-102573 "Michael V Smith’s memoir on body shame and gay masculinity"]. Daily Xtra, April 21, 2015.

Smith, openly gay,{{citation |title=Vancouver's Smith wins new prize for gay writers |date=June 14, 2007 |publisher=CBC News}} is a graduate of the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing program. He has also made a number of short films, several of which have garnered awards from the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in Toronto, Ontario. He teaches at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus in the interdisciplinary Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies.

He served on the jury of the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, selecting Amber Dawn as that year's winner.

Smith also formerly performed as a drag queen, under the stage name Miss Cookie LaWhore.[https://www.dailyxtra.com/losing-my-lesbian-hetero-virginity-39861 "‘Losing my lesbian hetero virginity’"]. Daily Xtra, March 30, 2005.