Vancouver’s Michael V. Smith is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, zinester, performance artist and occasional clown.

Recently, Smith won Vancouver's Community Hero of the Year Award and the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers. He's also won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction, scooped both short film categories at Toronto's Inside Out festival, and was nominated for the Journey Prize.

His videos have played around the world, in cities such as Milan, Dublin, Turin, London, Geneva, Buenos Aires, SF, LA and Bombay. He curates the Robson Reading Series with Elizabeth Bachinsky and is a past organizer for Crash the Indie Writers Fest. Smith is an MFA grad from UBC’s Creative Writing program.

Smith’s novel, Cumberland (Cormorant Books), was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. His latest book is What You Can’t Have (Signature Editions), a collection of poetry, nominated for the ReLit Prize.

Oh, Vancouver Magazine thought he was one of the city's 25 most influential gay citizens whereas Loop Magazine named him one of Vancouver’s Most Dangerous People...

Check out the 5pt Tour for his new poetry book.