About Carolyn Smart
Carolyn Smart is the author of six volumes of poetry and an award-winning memoir. Born in 1952 in England, she is an author, mostly of poetry. She was seventeen when she published her first poem in an anthology entitled Vibrations (Gage Publishing, 1969), intended for study in schools. She continued to publish while studying English Literature and Eastern Religion at the University of Toronto. She gave her first public reading at Hart House in 1972, and began writing full-time in 1979, with her first collection of poetry appearing in 1981. Two of her poetry collections have been internationally staged as full-length performances. She is the founder of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, poetry editor for the MacLennan Series of McGill-Queen’s University Press, and for 32 years she was Director of Creative Writing at Queen’s University, mentoring generations of emerging authors.Browse all poems and texts published on Carolyn Smart
